TikTok twins Alan and Alex Stokes charged with felony after bank robbery prank
The TikTok and YouTube sensations could face up to four years in prison if convicted of the charges. Alan and Alex’s prank when horribly wrong and led to an Uber driver being held at gunpoint by police
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Twins Alan and Alex Stokes have been charged with a felony after a bank robbery prank went horribly wrong.
The social media influencers, 23, who boast 25 million TikTok followers, have both been charged with one count of false imprisonment and one misdemeanour of falsely reporting an emergency.
The charges come after the pair staged two fake bank robberies in 2019 as part of a social media prank.
If convicted of all counts, the twins face up to four years in state prison.
According to Orange County’s District Attorney’s office, on October 15 Alan and Alex dressed all in black and wore ski masks as they pretended to run from a bank with bags full of money.
The twins ordered an Uber however the driver – unaware of the prank – refused to move the vehicle.
In the clip, the Stokes twins ask the driver to “step on it,” before he refuses, saying: “OK you can’t take this ride, just get out of my car please.”
An onlooker then called the police after believing that the Stokes duo were trying to carjack the Uber.
Irvine police then held the Uber driver at gunpoint before he was later released.
Police then gave Alan and Ale a warning over their prank and released the pair, who then went on to stage a similar prank hours later.
Following their second stunt, that took place at University of California campus in Irvine, police received a number of calls about an alleged bank robbery.
District Attorney Todd Spitzer, who is overseeing the case, said in a statement : “These were not pranks.”
“These are crimes that could have resulted in someone getting seriously injured or even killed.
“Law enforcement officers are sworn to protect the public and when someone calls 911 to report an active bank robbery they are going to respond to protect lives. Instead, what they found was some kind of twisted attempt to gain more popularity on the internet by unnecessarily putting members of the public and police officers in danger.”
The two videos were also uploaded to their YouTube channel last year under the title ‘BANK ROBBER PRANK! (gone wrong).’
The clips garnered over one million views before being removed from the profile.
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