{"id":75550,"date":"2026-06-30T08:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/new-orleans-man-named-santa-claus-arrested-in-child-predator-sting\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:55:27","slug":"new-orleans-man-named-santa-claus-arrested-in-child-predator-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/new-orleans-man-named-santa-claus-arrested-in-child-predator-sting\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans man named Santa Claus arrested in child predator sting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police allege the 75-year-old tried to meet someone he believed was a 15-year-old boy after explicit online chats<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-orleans\">New Orleans<\/a> man who legally changed his name to Santa Claus was jailed recently on allegations that he tried to use a dating app to sexually prey on someone he believed to be an underage boy.<\/p>\n<p>Claus, 75, initiated contact through the app with an undercover detective who was posing as a 15-year-old boy as part of a sting operation being carried out over the weekend to arrest potential child predators, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kennerpolice\/posts\/pfbid0nqe5JjWF4v8pReY42kqo24cJkNWo7vwSfXGGgsdFVWAEB6yqNuRzSZHjyuNbdTbwl?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZZoeWMFd3NhEHT0t5vCa_0gXJLxm7L9KSV6ZYcZeUYzb1Lu1nrVZPivnekEkdI9FIoNkWw7IfDx1W0LLJV4cuybn-g6ZIhRWa-UqhKfhkPAd7rUPZyYxXfPCJd0siXVQLTgWhDOK-A61iwOg_wWYE_TRyYt3c9J_MBIfQDapvpxEQ&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\">said<\/a> a statement from police in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/30\/new-orleans-santa-claus-child-predator-arrested\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police allege the 75-year-old tried to meet someone he believed was a 15-year-old boy after explicit online chats Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A New Orleans man who legally changed his name to Santa Claus was jailed recently on allegations that he tried to use a dating app to sexually prey &#8230; <a title=\"New Orleans man named Santa Claus arrested in child predator sting\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/new-orleans-man-named-santa-claus-arrested-in-child-predator-sting\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Orleans man named Santa Claus arrested in child predator sting\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}