SPARTA, Wis. - This Santa Claus is in a ho ho -- whole lot of trouble.

Police in Sparta, Wis., report a man in a Santa suit stumbled out of a car, hugged several kids playing in a yard and demanded to know where his reindeer were.

The naughty Mr. Claus was cited for open intoxicants.


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The driver of the car in which he was riding was arrested for drunken driving.