Dylan Sprouse Details Holding Intruder at Gunpoint During Burglary

Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin Break Silence on Home Invasion (Exclusive)

Dylan Sprouse is recounting a harrowing moment at home.

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody alum detailed the attempted burglary at his and wife Barbara Palvin's home in April that ended with him holding the suspect at gunpoint for the first time.

"Barbara and I were ripping Pokémon packs," Sprouse told cohost Brendan Columbus on the July 14 episode of their Wildmen podcast. "She pulls huge. Flash forward, it's 12:30 at night, and I'm lying on the couch playing video games...I never lock my front door until I go to bed. I really shouldn't be saying this, but I've started to now, so nice try."

"So, I'm lying on the couch," he continued, "and I don't hear him come through the gate. All of a sudden, I'm hearing a rattle on my front door, and the first thought that goes through my head is my dad who comes by anytime he wants, [but] he would never show up at 12:30, because he's in bed by 8. And the second thought that went through my head is someone's trying to steal our Pokémon cards."

The 33-year-old noted that the couple's collection of Pokémon cards "is far and away not the most valuable thing in the house—that's obviously the life of my wife" before explaining that he immediately ran upstairs to grab a gun.

"I calculated this, because I looked at the front door cam," he shared. "From the moment he's trying to get from the door and turns away—twenty seconds outside with a gun. Upstairs, grab the 1911 Kimber, downstairs, out the door in 20 seconds."

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"I look at Barbara and she's like, 'Is someone trying to break in?'" Sprouse added. "I'm like, 'Yeah, stay up here. Chill out.' She goes, 'I'm going to get the police on the phone.'"

The Big Daddy actor noted that his wife "f--king killed it" in the moment, mimicking her holding a gun and said, "She wasn't crow's nest out the upper floor window."

He then recounted his face-to-face encounter with the attempted intruder.

"I'm standing by the side, and I go, 'Who's there?' again," Sprouse said. "He goes, 'Nobody!' And I know he's over there, so I have my gun raised and he walks out and the first thing I notice [as] he comes into the light, he's walking really slow and he has a cigarette in one hand and a longboard skateboard in the other. That was my immediate lock, I went, 'He must be kind of tweaking.'"

"I go, 'Hey, follow me. We're going to go out my property,'" he continued. "'Walk slow, keep your hands out, like, I don't want any funny business.' So, he complies. He's really mellow about it. He's not crazy."

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The Disney Channel alum noted that he sensed the suspect was "on something" and told him, "'Dude, I don't even know where I am,’" before Sprouse noticed that he had "a bunch of wires hanging out of his pockets" and a "bulge on his chest."

After instructing him to pull up his sweatshirt, Sprouse saw that the bulge was a fanny pack, so he had him sit until the police showed up.

"Case closed," he explained. "Didn't press charges, he got in the slammer because of his previous arrest warrants and I want to have him on the pod."

The Suite Life on Deck alum also dispelled a rumor that had been going around about the whole ordeal.

"I never tackled the guy," he said, "but everybody thinks I did and I'm not correcting them. I want people to think I did, because it's cool."

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