{"id":129582,"date":"2025-09-03T11:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129582\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:34:10","slug":"man-arrested-for-breaking-into-smyrna-church-to-spend-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129582\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for breaking into Smyrna church to spend the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/95D2F743CF78752DD315525CB58210B3.jpg\" alt=\"Man arrested for breaking into church\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-fa1f2118=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">SMYRNA, Ga. &#8211; A man is facing charges after police say he broke into a Smyrna church and tried to hide in the attic.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Officers said Marcus Worthington entered the South Cobb Drive church last Wednesday and spent the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">When staff encountered him the next day, they called 911. Police said Worthington attempted to punch holes through the ceiling to reach the roof before he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Worthington is charged with criminal trespass and criminal damage to property.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/tag\/us\/ga\/cobb-county\/smyrna\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smyrna<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SMYRNA, Ga. &#8211; A man is facing charges after police say he broke into a Smyrna church and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,55373,13591,5282,451,3,82206,452,453,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-129582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cobb-county","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-ga","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-smyrna","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}