Twin brothers Alan and Alex Stokes, known as “The Stokes Twins,” with more than six million followers on YouTube, have pleaded guilty after a bank robbery prank went wrong.
According to TMZ, the twins pled guilty to false imprisonment and reporting false emergencies, both misdemeanors, for their prank bank robberies case. The judge reduced their original felony charges of false imprisonment to a misdemeanor in exchange for their guilty plea and sentenced them to community service and a year’s probation for the misdemeanor charge.
The YouTubers were charged for staging a series of heists in Irvine, CA, back in 2019 to produce a prank video as content for their YouTube channel.
One of the pranks went wrong and resulted in cops holding an unsuspecting Uber driver at gunpoint.
“These crimes could have easily resulted in someone being seriously hurt or killed,” Todd Spitzer, the Orange County District Attorney, said.
“It is irresponsible and reckless that these two individuals cared more about increasing their number of followers on the internet than the safety of those police officers or the safety of the innocent Uber driver who was ordered out of his car at gunpoint,” Spitzer said.
