YouTubers face up to seven years in prison for their weird decision to have a night of fun in a Pennsylvania Target store.
Pennsylvania cops have busted 25-year-old Johnson Larose and 24-year-old Charlotte Fischer for hiding inside a Target store and filming themselves having fun so they could upload the video to their social media channel on Feb. 21.
Officers responded to the report of a tripped alarm and arrived at the location. They searched the building but didn’t find anyone.
“The next day police say Target employees found surveillance video showing a man and a woman wandering around the store for hours with their phones out. The intruders didn’t take anything during their time inside the store,” FOX 29 Philadelphia reported.
“It became a little bit bigger of an investigation, trying to find out what they were doing, was there something criminal?” police detective Scott Pezick said.
The couple uploaded the video of their “ 24 hour overnight challenge in Target ” to their YouTube channel, which has 17,800 subscribers. In the nearly 26-minute video, the pair can be seen building a fort to hide behind and then wandering around aimlessly as the store was closed.
The pair claimed they spent the night inside the store, but cops confirmed the two left through an emergency exit around 3 am, which is what tripped the alarm. The couple came back to the store around 8 in the morning to resume their fun.
The situation could have ended much differently for the couple if police and Target resources weren’t involved.
“When you go to burglary call you have a heightened sense of awareness. Suddenly, you see somebody in there, or maybe they get spooked and run, our officers are well-trained, but it’s not a great situation for anybody,” Detective Pezick said. “They weren’t out to harm anybody, but we want to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
According to authorities, Larose and Fischer face third-degree criminal trespassing charges. They have been freed on a $25,000 unsecured bail and, in addition, have been restricted from entering Target stores across the Keystone State. Their next court appearance is scheduled for March 24.
“I mean, no regrets just living life and having fun, it’s kind of sad that all of this came out of it, we were expecting a fine nothing crazy,” Fischer told FOX 29.
