Jake Paul \u201carrested\u201d in YouTube prank following \u2018looting\u2019 charges Jake PaulUPDATE 2:15PM PST June 14: The 23-year-old has now cleared up the mystery surrounding his alleged \u201carrest,\u201d revealing in a YouTube upload that he was actually the victim of a prank set up by friends, and wasn\u2019t in fact taken into custody by real police. After finding out he\u2019d fallen for the joke while in the back of the fake cop car, he expressed frustration over being punk\u2019d, and explained why he was \u201csick\u201d of being \u201cmade an example of\u201d for content. \u201cAnd the f**ked up part, bro? I might still go to jail, so this is like f**king funny, but it\u2019s not. F**k you guys!\u201d (Topic starts at 7:57.) Original story below. YouTuber and Team 10 owner Jake Paul was allegedly \u201carrested\u201d on June 13, following criminal charges filed against him for criminal trespassing and unlawful assembly on June 4 \u2013 but is it real? The 23-year-old came under fire after videos were posted online of him being present during riots in Scottsdale, Arizona on May 30. He responded to the accusations, and claimed that while he was indeed there, he didn\u2019t participate in any illegal activities himself. Law enforcement didn\u2019t see it that way though, and ruled him as somewhat complicit just by being in attendance, handing him criminal charges of criminal trespassing and unlawful assembly. Now, on June 13, a video has surfaced online of the YouTube star allegedly being \u201carrested\u201d by police \u2013 but a lot of people have doubts surrounding the legitimacy of it. Was Jake Paul arrested? The video appears to show Jake getting put into the back of a police car outside his house by two male officers while the person recording it exclaims \u201cWe\u2019re on it, we\u2019re on it, dude!\u201d as though to reassure him they\u2019d get him out of custody as soon as they could. \u201cJesus, bro\u2026\u201d they continue, as they pan the camera around to show another law enforcement vehicle parked next to the first one. \u201cBro, this is f**ked.\u201d Jake Paul ARRESTED at his house\u2026 or so it seems but he\u2019s faked this shit before so we can\u2019t say for certain unfortunately \ud83d\ude41 https:\/\/t.co\/KT4hBRVZEX \u2014 Kavos (@KavosYT) June 13, 2020 The legitimacy of the \u201carrest\u201d appears to be doubted by many online, especially due to the fact that neither cars have license plates on the front, or state a town or city on the side as is common with US police vehicles. Twitter user \u2018@Hey_Byrd\u2019 also pointed out that the cars \u201clook awfully similar\u201d to fake ones hired actors use when performing stunts \u2013 indicating that this could all be just an act for an upcoming video about the charges. It\u2019s currently unclear at the time of writing as to whether the content creator was actually brought into custody or not, or whether it was simply staged for a future project. Jake was pranked by being \u201carrested\u201d by fake cops for Curtis Lepore\u2019s YouTube channel in 2017, which also adds to the speculation. https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hey_Byrd\/status\/1271912235447746562 Neither Jake or his brother Logan have spoken out about the incident on social media, leaving fans confused as to whether he\u2019s actually in custody or not. According to Sgt. Benjamin Hoster from the Scottsdale PD, the YouTube star is due to appear in court \u201cin a month\u201d over the charges, so it\u2019s a mystery as to why they\u2019d be arresting him now \u2013 if he actually was, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul \u201carrested\u201d in YouTube prank following \u2018looting\u2019 charges Jake PaulUPDATE 2:15PM PST June 14: The 23-year-old has now cleared up the mystery surrounding his alleged \u201carrest,\u201d revealing in a YouTube upload that he was actually the victim of a prank set up by friends, and wasn\u2019t in fact taken into custody by real police. […]<\/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-51043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51043","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=51043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}