Whoever smelt it, dealt it.
A suspected church burglar in Washington state obtained a smelly sendoff after a skunk sprayed him simply earlier than his arrest final week, authorities mentioned.
The incident occurred round 3:10 a.m. Thursday when deputies responded to a reported housebreaking in progress on the Church of the Nazarene in Deer Park, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned Tuesday.
The caller advised deputies {that a} male sporting a masks over his face and holding a flashlight was seen on a surveillance dwell feed strolling round contained in the church and audio gear.
Deputies arrived on the scene and noticed a person, later recognized as 28-year-old Grant M. Simonson, stroll previous an open window after which start to climb out, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
Deputies demanded the suspect present his palms and get on the bottom.
“He started to observe the instructions when out of the blue a skunk got here operating across the nook, approached Simonson, and launched its well-known and malodorous spray earlier than fleeing the world,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
Simonson was taken into custody with out additional incident.
After deputies learn him his rights, they mentioned Simonson claimed that he was “conscious and bored,” so he went for a journey on his bicycle and observed an open church window.
Deputies mentioned he claimed to have gone dwelling earlier than returning on foot, eradicating a display screen from the window and getting into as a result of he was “curious.”
Simonson was booked into the Spokane County Jail for second-degree housebreaking. He was launched later that day on his personal recognizance.
As for the skunk, deputies mentioned the animal’s whereabouts are unknown.
“The skunk is a wild animal and never affiliated with regulation enforcement or the church,” the sheriff’s workplace suggested.
