He Doused Walmart Produce With Poison

Spraying deadly poison on the produce at Walmart is not a nice thing to do. It got Mesa, Arizona, resident Charles Smith arrested. He considers himself a social media influencer but his broadcast won’t have a whole lot of influence with the judge, come sentencing time.

Poison not a prank

Nobody told Charles Smith that spraying poison on food is a crime. He didn’t seem to mind how many people he might have killed.

The 27-year-old simply expected to make fat stacks from another outrageous “prank” video posted to TikTok. Police charged him, heavily, in connection with his “reckless social media post.”

Mesa Police Department booked him in on “a felony charge of introducing poison, and three misdemeanors including criminal damage, endangerment and theft.” The incident happened around 8:30 p.m. on December 19 but police didn’t catch up to him until the 21st.

Walmart is quick to assure customers that “all the impacted products were removed and the affected area of the store was sanitized following the incident.” They aren’t saying how long after the incident.

Police haven’t explained how they managed to associate Smith with the reported poison spray incident but do note that they’ve seen his video. It’s since been removed officially but is still floating around in the wild, going viral.

“Smith filmed his face, the pesticide can, and the act of spraying. He later posted the video online,” Mesa PD confirms. Specifically, “on fruit, vegetables and rotisserie chickens that were available for purchase inside the store.”

Underscores potential danger

The casual attitude of someone who doesn’t think twice about spraying deadly poison on food “underscores the potential dangers of reckless actions disguised as social media pranks,” MPD relates. After identifying Smith, officers simply gave him a call to talk about his video.

“He later voluntarily turned himself in. During a police interview, Smith admitted to theft and spraying the merchandise.”

Since they already had a copy of the evidence he provided, Smith didn’t bother wasting officers’ time by lying about it. He calmly admitted that he “entered the store with the intention to film prank videos for his social media and grabbed a can of Hot Shot Ultra Bed Bug and Flea Killer from the store’s shelf without paying for it.”

He allegedly makes thousands from his antics but was too cheap to buy the poison he used.

Another of his popular episodes was the one where he tied “a bungee cord around the door handles of a store.” He taunted confused customers by telling them, “you guys are locked in there, forever.”

The Mesa Police Department, meanwhile, “is proud of the swift and diligent work of our officers and detectives in resolving this case and protecting the community.” Smith may think twice about the karma of putting poison in food after he gets a taste of what Arizona serves in jail. Even without Sheriff Joe Arpaio around, there’s still a whole bunch of green baloney.

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