Police departments are using Santa to go undercover and make arrests. Officers with the National Police in Peru dressed as Santa and an elf to bust the house of a suspected drug kingpin whose alleged operation was set up near a school. In California, officers with the Riverside Police Department dressed as Santa and a helper to bust shoplifters and even took down an alleged car thief. Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more. #InsideEdition
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