An arrest has been made after a TikToker posted a video of himself on social media spraying bug killer on produce at a Walmart in Mesa, Arizona, according to the Mesa Police Department.
Charles Smith, who goes by the username @WolfieKhaletti on TikTok, filmed himself spraying “Hot Shot Ultra Bed Bud and Flea Killer” on bananas, potatoes, lemons, limes and rotisserie chickens before the 27-year-old shared it with his 350,000 followers on TikTok.
Smith ‘Intended to Film Pranks for Social Media’
After the now-deleted video went viral, Tempe and Mesa police opened an investigation against Smith and contacted him. Smith then turned himself in. He was later charged with introducing poison, criminal damage, endangerment, and theft, according to the MPD.
According to police, Smith entered the Walmart on Stapley Drive “intending to film pranks for social media” on Dec. 19 around 8:30 p.m., but instead took a can of the bug killer from a shelf without paying for it and sprayed its contents on the produce that …