{"id":1441593,"date":"2025-09-11T21:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1441593"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:09:32","slug":"smith-county-authorities-arrest-church-vandal-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1441593","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested for vandalizing Jesus statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Jordan-Grey-Clark-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1441594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Jordan-Grey-Clark-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Jordan-Grey-Clark-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Jordan-Grey-Clark.jpg 677w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY \u2013 The man who allegedly vandalized  the statue of Jesus at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Flint was arrested Thursday. According to our news partner KETK, Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Officers and the county SWAT team apprehended 36-year-old Jordan Grey Clark at his home in Flint. On Sunday September 7, Clark is accused of damaging the face and both hands of the marble statue of Jesus located in front of the church. The statue faces Old Jacksonville Highway. Clark was taken to the Smith County Jail and has been charged with criminal mischief at a place of worship, and his bond has been set at $400,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY \u2013 The man who allegedly vandalized the statue of Jesus at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Flint was arrested Thursday. According to our news partner KETK, Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Officers and the county SWAT team apprehended 36-year-old Jordan Grey Clark at his home in Flint. On Sunday September 7, Clark is accused of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1441593\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suspect arrested for vandalizing Jesus statue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1441609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Jordan-Grey-Clark-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 19:10:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Jordan-Grey-Clark-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441593"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441892,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441593\/revisions\/1441892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1441609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}