VENANGO TWP — A homeowner turned the tables on an intruder late Friday night by bashing the man with a baseball bat after he tried to break into his home, state police said.

The suspect, Shane W. Burns, 28, of Grove City ended up in the Butler County prison but not before a medical stop at a Pittsburgh hospital.

Police said Burns needed treatment for what they described as a “severe head laceration.”

District Judge Lewis Stoughton on Saturday arraigned Burns on charges of burglary, trespass, simple assault, criminal mischief, harassment and driving with a suspended license.

Burns remains in the county prison on $10,000 bail.

Burns learned the hard way that crime doesn’t pay, according to court documents, when he showed up about 10:35 p.m. Friday at John Mackalica’s home on Jamison Road in Venango Township.

Burns appeared after learning his former girlfriend, 29-year-old Megan Bartley, was there, police said.

Mackalica told investigators that Burns tried to force in the door. When that failed, he broke out a window and managed to get his body “half way through into the house,” documents said.

But by that time, Mackalica had retrieved a baseball bat. He hit Burns in his head.

Burns retreated from the house with a bleeding gash to his head. But he wasn’t finished despite his serious injury.

Police said he went to Bartley’s vehicle and “smeared blood all over the inside and outside.”

He allegedly returned to the house and repeatedly threw himself into the door until he passed out, police said.

At that point, Bartley went outside to check on Burns and to try and stop the bleeding. But when Burns regained consciousness, he jumped to his feet and hit Bartley in the face, police said.

Burns grabbed the woman and “wiped blood all over her face and body,” documents said.

Burns got into his car and tried to leave, but his getaway failed when he crashed into an embankment.

Later, a medical helicopter flew him to UPMC Presbyterian hospital.

At his arraignment Burns told Stoughton that he is unemployed. He also acknowledged he was on probation stemming from a 2009 conviction for terrorist threats in Venango County.