A male prankster has been arrested in connection with a social media post involving the spraying of pesticides on produce and other foods at a Mesa Walmart store.

According to police, Charles Smith, 27, entered the Walmart at 1955 S. Stapley Dr. on Dec. 19 intending to film pranks for social media platforms.

Instead, police said Smith grabbed a can of Hot Shot Ultra Bed Bug and Flea Killer from a shelf without paying for it and then sprayed the pesticide on various vegetables, fruit and rotisserie chickens that were available for purchase.

Smith recorded his face, the pesticide can and the act of him spraying its contents. He later posted the recording online.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    20 hours ago

    That’s just how cops talk. Police are trained to speak as vaguely as possible in order to not give the defense any ammunition. If they say “he was not a customer” then the defense can use that in the trial, and why would they want to help the defense?

    Now answer my question. Do you think he was a customer, and they just haven’t found out yet?

    • theUwUhugger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      19 hours ago

      How on the bloody earth would assassinating his character help his defense? Maybe if they were lying, that could help I guess?

      He is either ought to be, or he is a set up! It is very suspicious that after a week of headless panicking they found the suspect with the murder weapon and an apparently false paper explaining that he did it

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        The most likely explanation for that is he’s not the criminal mastermind you want him to be.

      • nomyEnglish
        3·
        16 hours ago

        Dude you’re thinking way too deeply into, it really is as simple as “that’s just how cops and lawyers talk, nobody is going to give away anything.”

        On top of that we have pretty serious restrictions called HIPAA on releasing private healthcare information and no insurance provider in the world is just going to go ahead and confirm plans details or lack of one if they don’t have to.