“Argumentative, belligerent,” and “naked.”
Putnam County Sheriff’s Office deputies not only had to work in the 93-degree heat on Friday, Aug. 8, but one of their arrests involved a man who apparently was frustrated by the soaring temperatures.
A 911 dispatcher alerted them to a call on Lower Harmony Road about a naked man who had let another man’s dog out of its kennel and was beating a different man’s car with a stick. Deputies Angela Jordan, Sgt. Jeffrey Duncan, Charles Riley, and Todd Hudspeth responded.
The property on the 400 block of Lower Harmony has two houses, according to Riley’s report. One of the houses is rented by the two men who called 911 because their doorbell camera revealed the aforementioned nude man and his actions against their dog and vehicle. The other house is an Airbnb the naked man was renting.
Deputy Jordan was the first to arrive at the scene, followed by Sgt. Duncan.
As Duncan was parking his patrol car, Jordan saw the “fully nude, white male standing in front of the parked patrol car,” she wrote in her report. Jordan pointed her taser at the man, and he complied with her orders to put his hands on his head and get on his knees so she could handcuff him.
When informed he was under arrest, the man identified himself as Douglas Grady. After being advised of his Miranda Rights, Grady stated he understood them and declined to be questioned. Duncan escorted Grady to the steps of a storage building and had him sit.
Meanwhile, the victim who had called 911 arrived at the house, along with deputies Riley and Hudspeth.
All four deputies reported in their reports that Grady repeatedly told them he “was going to die today,” to “tell (his) wife and parents,” that he “wanted his death video recorded,” that they “were going to have to tase him,” and that “he had reclaimed the land and returned it to God.”
“Grady was argumentative and belligerent,” Riley said. “He told me we had no authority over him and to keep our (expletive) hands off of him.”
Riley and Hudspeth stayed with Grady on the steps while Jordan went to the other driveway to retrieve her patrol car so she could take Grady to jail. Twice while they waited, Grady stood up and attempted to get away from them. Because he refused to cooperate or sit back down as commanded, the deputies eventually put leg irons on him.
Grady refused to get into Jordan’s patrol car. Once the deputies got him into the backseat, he immediately lay down and threw his feet up to the ceiling, according to Jordan’s report. The deputies then sat him up and buckled the seatbelt around him.
“While I was (driving away from) the residence, Grady mentioned something like, ‘Get my mushrooms,’” Jordan said in her report.
After he was booked into Putnam County Jail, Grady reportedly complied with instructions and was detained without further incident. Meanwhile, the other deputies documented the complaints and damages at the scene.
Hudspeth viewed the security videos, which reportedly showed Grady removing a flag flying on the front of the house, yelling at a dog, saying, “this isn’t your house,” and striking a 2012 Kia Forte with the flagpole, breaking the windshield.
At the short-term rental house, they found a dog running around outside. Inside, they also saw broken furniture and items scattered across the floors in multiple rooms. On the floor, deputies found a dog collar with a tag inscribed with the dog’s name, “Maxwell,” as well as Grady’s name, his wife’s name, and her phone number.
Deputies called the number, and she told them she was more than an hour away, so they called Putnam County Animal Shelter to get the dog and care for it until she could arrive.
The victim, who had called 911, showed deputies the broken dog kennel. His dog had on a tracking collar, so they were able to find it safe and sound at a nearby neighbor’s residence.
Douglas Lavern Grady, 58, of Decatur, was booked into Putnam County Jail on charges that include three counts of criminal trespass, one count of loitering and prowling, one count of public indecency, and two counts of misdemeanor willful obstruction of law enforcement officers. He was released on $5,662.50 in property bonds, according to jail reports.
This marks the fourth arrest of a naked man in 2026. In unrelated incidents in March, two men were arrested in the county and one in the city, according to authorities.