{"id":45137,"date":"2025-01-28T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/youtuber-boogie2988-in-washington-county-jail-following-aggravated-assault-charge-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:01:10","slug":"youtuber-boogie2988-in-washington-county-jail-following-aggravated-assault-charge-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/youtuber-boogie2988-in-washington-county-jail-following-aggravated-assault-charge-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber Boogie2988 in Washington County jail following aggravated assault charge &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTuber Boogie2988 in Washington County jail following aggravated assault charge Washington County Sheriff\u2019s OfficeYouTuber Steven \u2018Boogie2988\u2019 Williams has said he will \u201cdo the right thing\u201d and cooperate with authorities, over an arrest warrant in his name for aggravated assault. UPDATE: May 12 at 12:02 PM EST Popular YouTube star Steven \u2018Boogie2988\u2019 Williams has been booked into the Washington County jail following charges for aggravated assault when he fired a \u2018warning shot\u2019 during a confrontation with fellow YouTuber Frank Hassle back in 2020. Williams is currently being held on a $5,000 bond while his court date is officially set to May 28. https:\/\/twitter.com\/boogietruth\/status\/1392500826749476866?s=21 Williams and Hassle had feuded for some months, with the former alleging that he had been harassed by fans. During an interview with DramaAlert host KEEMSTAR, Hassle threatened to turn up to Williams\u2019 home. Hassle did indeed go to Boogie2988\u2019s residence, who greeted him at the door with a firearm, and allegedly fired a round into the air. Images of the confrontation were posted to social media. BREAKING we now have pic of @Boogie2988 pointing gun at @FrankHassleYT !!!! #DramaAlert pic.twitter.com\/mN6DxAnyfK \u2014 KEEM \ud83c\udf7f (@KEEMSTAR) September 28, 2020 On May 11, it was discovered that a warrant was out for Williams\u2019 arrest on charges of aggravated assault, with a $5,000 bond. https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGatorGamer\/status\/1391988443673251840 Keemstar confirmed via a phone call with Boogie2988 that the charge was indeed related to the confrontation with Frank Hassle, and that he would be turning himself in on Wednesday, May 12. Read More: Good Week, Bad Week: Entertainment round-up &#8211; Williams himself confirmed this, but said he could not comment further \u201cfor obvious reasons.\u201d So news circulating around me: can\u2019t really comment for obvious reason. Thank you and anyone for support in this situation tho. I am gonna do the right thing and do it by the book. Glad to cooperate with authorities. Heading home today to do so. \u2014 Boogie2988 (@Boogie2988) May 11, 2021 Frank Hassle, the YouTuber who went to Williams home in September over their internet feud, posted an image of the arrest warrant with the caption \u201cI hope he gets the help he needs.\u201d Boogie2988 is still an active YouTuber with over 4 million subscribers, with much of his content gaming-related, as well as personal life updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTuber Boogie2988 in Washington County jail following aggravated assault charge Washington County Sheriff\u2019s OfficeYouTuber Steven \u2018Boogie2988\u2019 Williams has said he will \u201cdo the right thing\u201d and cooperate with authorities, over an arrest warrant in his name for aggravated assault. UPDATE: May 12 at 12:02 PM EST Popular YouTube star Steven \u2018Boogie2988\u2019 Williams has been booked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}