Posted on 03/13/2022 7:14:19 PM PDT by algore
A pair of YouTubers face up to seven years in prison after breaking into a Target in Pennsylvania for a bizarre 24-hour overnight challenge to boost subscribers to their channel.
The pair that go by the name Saucy and Honey attempted to hide inside the store in Exton on February 22. However, West Whiteland Township Police arrested Johnson Larose, 25, - aka 'Saucy' - and Charlotte Fischer, 24 - aka 'Honey'
Authorities were called to the Target when the alarm was tripped but police searching the big-box retailer were unable to locate anyone inside.
The next day, Target employees found surveillance footage showing a man and woman walking around the shop for hours with their phones filming it.
'It became a little bit bigger of an investigation, trying to find out what they were doing, was there something criminal?' police detective Scott Pezick said.
Neither Larose nor Fischer actually stole anything nor did they destroy any property. But they will face trespassing charges that carry up to seven years in prison
The couple filmed what they termed as the '24 hour overnight challenge in Target' on their page for their subscribers in a video that lasted about 26 minutes.
As was seen on the security footage, the pair largely walk around aimlessly before attempting to set up a fort.
While they claimed to have spent the entire night inside the Target, police note that camera footage showed them leaving at about 3 am, tripping the alarm that would eventually lead to their arrest.
Larose and Johnson did return to the Target at about 8 a.m. in an attempt to stage an end to the challenge.
Pezick said that the main offense the pair committed was the wasting of both police and the store's resources to track them down
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Except the cop who could not finish his doughnut till later.
Guilty!
Maybe a couple years of probation for being idiots.
As long they didn’t steal or harm anybody.
Reminds me of a movie way back where a guy got knocked unconscious inside of men’s room and was forced to spend the night locked in a department store avoiding guard dogs. I think the dogs were Dobermans.
They wont get 7 days much less 7 years.
But Jussie Smollet gets 150 days?
I bet the charges get dropped.
Yep, I remember that movie.
James Brolin.
If they instead burned it down, Kamala Harris would have paid their bail.
So how many views did this challenge get?
10K subs in 2 days. That’s a jump.
Charlotte aka “Honey” is going to require some time in lock up to wipe that smirk off of her face. She still doesn’t get it.
The gravity of what they just did may be dawning on
Johnson aka “Saucy”.
These are not ‘teens’, these are grown folks.
And yes, when you trip an alarm you do force an investigation.
Silly attention whores.
Fine them for the amount of the investigation and enough for a steak dinner for the store security team who's time they wasted.
Meh, let them live in a store for a week, then you might have something worth posting...
Trespassing... Lock them in the DC jail without trial.. We know that is the most heinous crime. Worse than 9-11 and Pearl Harbor combined.
Whenever I hear about someone inside a store overnight, I think of that movie.
I was only a kid when I watched it, but it left a lasting impression.
A lot of “grown folks” seem to have the maturity of a 7 year old.
What about the Natalie Portman movie “Where the Heart Is” where her character stayed in a Walmart for weeks every night? Nothing happened to her once they figured out she didn’t steal anything.
If only they had looted something, there would be no charges...
I was thinking that seven years in the pokey sounded a bit harsh
until I read that they faked the youtube challenge.
Lock ‘em up!
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