Video: Too much Christmas cheer for Santa?

By Community Video ( Contact )   December 15, 2009 - 10:45 a.m.

SPARTA, Wis. — Santa Claus is in trouble with the law in one western Wisconsin city.

Police in Sparta say they cited a man dressed as Santa after witnesses told officers he stumbled out of a vehicle, approached several children playing in a yard, hugged them and demanded to know the whereabouts of his reindeer.

"He smelled like alcohol. So I knew it wasn't the real Santa because Santa doesn't drink alcohol," 9-year-old Katie Dockerty told WEAU TV.

Officers ticketed 55-year-old Thomas Arnold of Sparta for having an open beer in a car. The driver of the car in which he was riding was arrested for drunken driving.

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