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Fake threats created by musical director sabotage ‘Rocky Horror Show’ production, police say<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/a>ESSEX, Vt. \u2014<\/p>\n

A planned production of cult-classic play “The Rocky Horror Show” was sabotaged by the play’s own director, according to police.<\/p>\n

The Essex Police Department said Kenneth Grenier, who was the musical director for the Essex Community Players’ production of the hit ’70s film, sent himself threatening text messages from a subscriber-based cell phone app in order to get the show canceled.<\/p>\n

Police said they first began investigating after Grenier, 26, of Hyde Park, reported receiving a series of harassing and threatening texts on April 7 from an unknown person. Those threats eventually led the theater company to shut down production of the play due to safety concerns.<\/p>\n

Investigators later learned that the threatening messages were coming from an IP address registered to Grenier’s home. When confronted by police, he allegedly admitted to creating a fake account and sending the messages to himself so he could step away from the show instead of dealing with what he described as difficulties with the cast and crew.<\/p>\n

Grenier was cited on a misdemeanor charge of false reports to law enforcement authorities. His case has been referred to the Chittenden County Community Justice Center for resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fake threats created by musical director sabotage ‘Rocky Horror Show’ production, police say ESSEX, Vt. \u2014 A planned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6484,82817,22212,340718,88,340713,340724,340719,340716,340721,340714,340715,340722,1583,59225,109260,340723,35741,340717,104851,340720],"class_list":["post-802726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-april","tag-cast","tag-crew","tag-cult-classic-play","tag-entertainment","tag-essex-community-players","tag-essex-police-department","tag-fake-threat","tag-false-information","tag-false-report","tag-grenier","tag-kenneth-grenier","tag-law-enforcement-authority","tag-police","tag-production","tag-rocky-horror-picture-show","tag-subscriber-based-cell-phone-app","tag-text-message","tag-threatening-texts","tag-threats","tag-vt-musical-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802726","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=802726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}