When they got there, parishioners were holding down a 56-year-old man, accused of impeding the service by dumping whiskey into the holy water and threatening to hurt attendees, deputies said. As church attendees were removing the man from the building, he tried to hit several people with the bottle of whiskey, deputies said.

A Maryland man has been arrested for disrupting Christmas Eve services by allegedly pouring whiskey into holy water and assaulting a parishioner with fruit.