A Melbourne resident has described the incredible moment he chased down and restrained a teenager after his home was broken into.

Police say the home on Kinkora Rd in Hawthorn was broken into by two teenage boys about 3.25am on Monday.

The resident, 40-year-old Grant, said he went to investigate after he heard a noise inside his home.

He confronted the two teenage boys, one aged 14 and the other aged 15, who were skulking around the ground floor.

They fled the scene.

Grant told Sunrise he chased the teens out the back door and down the street while dressed in his jocks.

“I was yelling at them and they took off, and I got a hold of one of them,” he said.

Grant said four teenagers were asleep upstairs at the time of the break-in.

“What do you do, someone is in your house, you want to

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