 Christmas is a time of giving and sharing, but one individual fully embodied the Grinch this holiday season as he stole numerous items from local businesses in Pikeville. On Thursday they got him stealing a donation jar from Taco Bell for a small child. When he stole the donation jar he also stole the paper that went along with the donation jar thinking nobody would notice. Yesterday at the hospital, which is the 22nd, he went into the back, loaded up merchandise for the hospital. He actually put a hospital pit Pikeville Medical Center shirt on and was trying to kind of disguise himself as an employee. Other employees noticed him. When they noticed him he tried to take three televisions and escape. Well a woman tried to stop him while he was doing so. He knocked her to the ground. Security stopped him until we got there. After we got there I placed him under arrest for the theft. I located bags with crystal-like substance inside believed to be methamphetamine. If they see anything, they're going to dial 911. If they are in the city limits they'll go straight to our dispatch where they can dial 437-5111. If they don't think it's an emergency and that's our non-emergency line because their holiday season theft will go up. So try to keep your car locked. Anything valuable keep on you or in your residence.