A Texas woman, dubbed the Christmas "Grinch," has been sentenced to 70 years in jail for stealing, among other things, her neighbor's Christmas lights.

Dana Brock had a voluminous rap sheet, including credit card abuse, drug possession and assault, but according to news reports it was the surveillance video showing Brock's theft of Christmas lights from outside a home while the family slept that prompted a jury to take all of five minutes to hand down the 70-year sentence.

“When you’re known as the Christmas Grinch, people do remember you,” assistant Parker County (TX) district attorney Jeff Swain said.

“A 70-year sentence will knock the air out of your stomach,” said her attorney Raul Navarez. “She kept asking me, ’70 years? Are you serious? 70 years?’ Because 70 years is a pretty harsh sentence for this kind of a deal. And quite frankly, that’s what I argued to the jury. But the jury decided and we have to respect that.”

—Source: TheBlaze.com