Collin Klaco
Introduction
Collin Klaco is a 24-year-old man from Clermont, Florida, who told detectives he used to dress up as Mickey Mouse at Walt Disney World, and who was arrested on October 30, 2026 in what the Polk County Sheriff’s Office called the largest sting in the county’s history. According to the sheriff’s office, he traveled to an undercover location intending to meet a child he had been told was 13 years old. He was one of 281 people arrested in the seven-day sweep Sheriff Grady Judd dubbed “Polk Around and Find Out II,” and the one the sheriff singled out with his harshest language of the week.
Background Information
The sheriff’s office roster of child-predator suspects lists Klaco under the label “FORMER MICKEY MOUSE,” and WKMG’s report was topped by a photograph of Judd holding up Klaco’s mug shot at the news conference. Per investigators, Klaco told detectives after his arrest that he used to perform as Mickey Mouse at Disney World.
The arrest came out of a seven-day, multi-agency effort that Judd announced on Friday, October 30, 2026. Undercover detectives posed online as children or as their guardians, while separate undercover prostitution investigations ran in parallel; the New York Post reported 117 arrests of people who allegedly solicited prostitution from undercover officers, another 122 for committing prostitution, and 11 people rescued who were suspected of being trafficking victims. With 281 arrests in all, it was the largest sting operation in Polk County’s history.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Charged, not convicted. Klaco was arrested in the sting and charged with felonies including traveling to meet a minor and attempted lewd/lascivious battery on a minor. The allegations below come from Polk County Sheriff’s Office statements, and nothing has been adjudicated — he is presumed innocent.
According to the sheriff’s office, Klaco communicated online with an undercover detective who was posing as the guardian of a 13-year-old boy. Deputies said he stated that he loved “wetting accidents, sex, blowjobs, hand jobs, diaper changing time sex, potty training time blowjobs, getting bred, being diapered up, and being diaper changed” — quoted verbatim from the roster’s account of the conversation — and that he said he wanted to do something in a public family restroom.
The sheriff’s office said Klaco then drove to the undercover location, where he was taken into custody. Detectives reported finding diapers and wipes in a backpack he carried into the house; per the Post’s account of Judd’s press conference, the sheriff said Klaco had brought two backpacks full of diapers that he planned to wear himself and to put on the boy he believed he was meeting.
He was charged with traveling to meet a minor, use of computer to solicit guardian, use of two-way communication device to commit a felony, and attempted lewd/lascivious battery on a minor.
Public Reaction and Consequences
Judd was unusually blunt about Klaco at the announcement, describing him per the Post as the “nastiest person we’ve ever arrested” and noting that he even had the cartoon character’s “high spooky voice too, by the way.” The sheriff, per the Post, added: “He was into diapers… He wanted to wear diapers. He wanted to put diapers on the children.”
The former Mouse performer became the public face of the sting. WKMG’s roster of the child-predator arrests opened with his entry, and the New York Post framed its entire story around him in the headline, alongside the youth football coach Judd called the “worst of the worst.” Both outlets treated the alleged Disney past as the detail that set this arrest apart from the other 280.
Current Status
Klaco was taken into custody during the operation and charged with the four felony counts listed above. The cited reports record only the arrest and the charges: no arraignment, plea, or court date appears in them, and nothing about the case had been adjudicated as of the October 30, 2026 announcements. He is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Klaco’s Disney connection is central to how the case has been understood publicly, even though he told detectives he only used to work there: both cited outlets identified him primarily as a former Mickey Mouse impersonator. Judd confirmed that every arrestee who was still working at Disney at the time of arrest had been fired, and the Post counted the Disney-linked group as “an ex-Disney World Mickey Mouse impersonator and 12 coworkers” among the nearly 300 people arrested that week.