Jean Lafitte, Gulf terror and Christmas pirate
Louisiana historians know Jean Lafitte as the pirate who, shortly before Christmas in 1814, surrendered his plunder to fight alongside Colonel Andrew Jackson to save the City of New Orleans. However, few know that Lafitte and his crew had more in common with Santa Claus and Robin Hood than with Blackbeard or Calico Jack Sparrow.
Wayward Santa nearly arrested in Hammond
A heavy-set man, his face masked with shaving foam that made one victim describe him as Santa Claus, robbed this North Mississippi town’s only bank of $222. When the same man arrives in Hammond, Louisiana, more trouble begins.