The Grinch, in the form of Ryan Michael Bennet, 21, of Pahrump, visited a local family on Christmas Eve.

Bennet was arrested and taken to the Nye County Detention center after allegedly attempting to steal a 12-year-old boy's Xbox 360.

Deputies Bergstrom and Benson were dispatched to the home of Robert Plein on Christmas Eve morning for a reported possible home invasion in progress.

The deputies were advised that a suspect had left through the window of the bedroom where a woman and her infant child were sleeping.

The woman had woken up and saw the suspect leave.

Upon arriving at the scene, Bergstrom saw Bennet "start charging, with his arms and fists positioned in a fighting mode, toward (Plein)," a sheriff's office press release stated.

The deputy managed to handcuff Bennet before he could attack Plein, but the struggle wasn't over yet. Bennet was taken to the patrol vehicle where he was searched but refused to get into the back seat when told to do so, the press release stated.

Bennet resisted deputies' attempts to get him into the back of the vehicle by "kicking at them and hyper extending his torso so that he could not be bent over and placed in the vehicle," the press release stated.

After several attempts, however, the deputies succeeded in getting the suspect into the patrol car, giving officers a chance to talk to Plein.

Plein reportedly told deputies he went out of the house and saw Bennet quickly walking from the side of the house where the window through which he left was located.

When he yelled at Bennet, Plein said the suspect "'stopped in his tracks'" and started to walk away.

He then turned back, however, and got into a verbal confrontation with Plein and began to charge at him, at which point the deputies arrived.

Plein also informed the officers that his son's new Xbox 360, a Christmas gift, was missing from the bedroom.

It was found outside at the spot where Bennet was first seen by Plein.

Capt. Bill Becht said Bennet was an acquaintance, but not a friend or relative, of the Pleins.

Bennet was booked on charges of burglary, grand larceny, assault and resisting a peace officer.

His bail was set at $11,264.