A Maryland man is being compared to The Grinch following an arrest for his alleged behavior at two churches on Christmas Eve.

Thomas Campbell Bolling Von Goetz, 56, was arrested and charged with multiple offenses following a sacrilegious rampage on Tuesday

A 56-year-old man accused of pouring whiskey into holy water and assaulting local residents was arrested and faces seven charges in Leonardtown, Md., according to the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s

Later in the night at a midnight mass at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Leonardtown, Maryland, Von Goetz turned up with a bottle of whiskey and allegedly disrupted the service by pouring it into the holy water before threatening to harm the parishioners.

A man is facing charges after deputies said he assaulted churchgoers and poured whiskey into the holy water. Thomas Campbell Bolling Von Goetz, 56, is facing charges including assault, defacing religious property, disturbing the peace, and threat of mass violence, according to St. Mary County Sheriff’s Office in Maryland.

A Maryland man was arrested on Christmas Eve after disrupting church services at two different churches and allegedly pouring whiskey into the holy water. The post Tangerine-throwing menace poured whiskey into holy water during midnight mass,

The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office said Thomas Campbell Bolling Von Goetz, 56, entered churches in Leonardtown and Avenue, Maryland, as well as assaulted a church-goer on Christmas Eve. Deputies said Von Goetz disrupted the evening Mass at Holy Angels Catholic Church in Avenue by dropping an onion in the isle of the altar.

A Maryland man was arrested and charged with several offences stemming from disruptions at two Catholic churches on Christmas Eve, including one disruption which he is accused of pouring liquor into a container of holy water.

He had too much holiday spirit. A fiend went on a sacrilegious rampage at two Maryland churches on Christmas Eve, pouring whiskey in the holy water at one place of worship before he was detained by fed-up parishioners,

A man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly engaging in “disorderly conduct” at two churches in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, including pouring whiskey into holy water, police said.