{"id":19402,"date":"2014-12-04T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=19402"},"modified":"2014-12-04T03:38:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T09:38:03","slug":"montgomery-county-sheriffs-office-has-grinch-in-custody-to-serve-community-service-at-christmas-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2014\/12\/04\/montgomery-county-sheriffs-office-has-grinch-in-custody-to-serve-community-service-at-christmas-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has Grinch in custody, to serve community service at Christmas Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46847\" title=\"Montgomery County Sheriff's Office - MCSO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/mcso.png\" alt=\"Montgomery County Sheriff's Office - MCSO\" width=\"144\" height=\"141\" \/><strong>Montgomery County, TN<\/strong> &#8211; It has been nearly a year since the Montgomery County Sheriff\u2019s Office booked the notorious Christmas thief, Mr. Grinch, into Montgomery County Jail, and now the green menace is facing the worst possible punishment for his crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking closely with our District Attorney\u2019s Office and our judges, we\u2019ve found a suitable punishment for Mr. Grinch that I\u2019m sure will work out to everyone\u2019s advantage,\u201d said Montgomery County Sheriff John Fuson.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_292673\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Grinch.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292673\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292673\" title=\"A terrified Clarksville resident last year, just before Mr. Grinch took off with a few gifts. The items were later returned.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Grinch-480x319.jpg\" alt=\"A terrified Clarksville resident last year, just before Mr. Grinch took off with a few gifts. The items were later returned.\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-292673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A terrified Clarksville resident last year, just before Mr. Grinch took off with a few gifts. The items were later returned.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The Grinch has been ordered to distribute candy to the youngsters of the area at 5:00pm during Saturday\u2019s 55th Annual Christmas Parade in downtown Clarksville.<\/p>\n<p>When told of his punishment, the Grinch was nearly charged with contempt of court for his outburst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an outrage, giving away candy, when keeping it for myself would be rather dandy!\u201d Grinch said. \u201cDoes this punishment fit the crime? I say, \u2018Neigh!\u2019 This is far too harsh for the theft of Christmas Day!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citizens, especially the younger ones, are invited to help see that the Grinch carries out his punishment, and to see that the MCSO truly does have the fiend in custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were reports that he was apprehended in different parts of the country shortly after our deputies had picked him up last year,\u201d Fuson said. \u201cBut fingerprinting and DNA samples proved that this Grinch was the Whosville\u2019s Whoo. Citizens, rest easy this night, for Mr. Grinch is here, and locked up, locked up plenty tight!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montgomery County, TN &#8211; It has been nearly a year since the Montgomery County Sheriff\u2019s Office booked the notorious Christmas thief, Mr. Grinch, into Montgomery County Jail, and now the green menace is facing the worst possible punishment for his crimes. \u201cWorking closely with our District Attorney\u2019s Office and our judges, we\u2019ve found a suitable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[11577,24734,19343,160,24735,11513,278],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-52W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19403,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19402\/revisions\/19403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}