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