The safe held about £148. That is what police say Dejontay Wings broke a window for.
Wings, 27, has nearly 300,000 followers across social media, built on comedy sketches and viral clips.
His most-viewed video this week is not one he made.
It is his mugshot, shared by local broadcaster WBRZ and now sitting on millions of views.
The job he’d already lost
Police allege the 27-year-old broke into a Take 5 Oil Change branch in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and took roughly $200 from a safe in the office.
He had been let go from the company around two weeks earlier.
Court documents cited by local reports allege he got in through a broken garage window, moved through the building, and found the safe.
According to a police warrant, it happened at about 10:50pm on 2 December last year.
CreatorZine first reported the detail.
Caught on a technicality of biology
A security camera malfunctioned during the incident, police said, leaving managers without a clear image of the suspect.
So no usable footage of the face.
The walk, though.
The business manager later told officers they recognised Wings by the way he moved. Investigators ran with it.
He was arrested on 6 June and booked on charges of simple burglary and criminal damage, according to Baton Rouge Police.
Why It Matters
A following is a liability the moment your face is also your brand.
Wings spent years making himself recognisable to 300,000 strangers.
The same recognisability that built the channel is now the thing a former manager used to point a finger.
For creators whose entire value is being known, there is no version of “lying low” that actually works.
The mugshot economy is its own genre now.
A booking photo of someone with an existing audience travels further and faster than the story attached to it, and the audience that arrives for the scandal rarely leaves for anything as dull as an outcome.
What happens to the channel is the part worth watching.
The charges are unproven and the case has not been tested in court.
The views, meanwhile, keep climbing on a clip he had no part in posting.
