Twin YouTubers Alan and Alex Stokes Charged With Felonies for Bank Robbery Prank
Alan and Alex Stokes have been arrested and charged with felony false imprisonment and misdemeanor swatting after staging a fake bank robbery prank for their channel.The twin social media influencers, 23, were each charged with one felony count of “false imprisonment effected by violence, menace, fraud, or deceit and one misdemeanor count of falsely reporting an emergency,” according to a press release from the Orange County District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday, August 5.Alan and Alex filmed the prank in Irvine, California, in October 2019 and posted it to their Stokes YouTube channel, which boasts almost 5 million subscribers.