The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office said Thomas Campbell Bolling Von Goetz, 34, 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 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, authorities said.

Officers were called to Holy Angels Catholic Church shortly after 5 p.m. after Thomas Von Goetz assaulted church goers with tangerines.