Worse than that, police figure the couple’s child was allegedly in the vehicle for a few of these fraudulent collisions
- California Department of Insurance investigation leads to assault, insurance, and child endangerment charges
- The investigation began after police saw the crash videos posted on couple’s YouTube channel
- One of the accused was arrested last month on similar charges, posting dash-cam video of intentional rear-end collision, moments after it took place
An investigation by the California Department of Insurance has led to the arrest of a couple who were allegedly committing all sorts of crimes on the roads, and filming them for their YouTube channel. Well guess what, YouTubers, police have the Internet, too.
Kimberly and Christopher Phelps of Yucaipa, California, manage a YouTube channel called BLU3 GHO57. The account has since been deactivated, but when it was live it played host to 162 dash-cam videos of road rage and vehicle-on-vehicle collisions.
Before hitting him with six felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon; 11 felony counts of insurance fraud; and five felony counts of child endangerment, police executed numerous search warrants, watched hours of the 40-year-old con artists driving like idiots, and tried to track down the victims.
Christopher was arrested on similar charges last month after he allegedly drove in front of a truck pulling a trailer and then stopped for no reason, causing the pickup to rear-end his vehicle. Not long after the incident, a rear-facing dash-cam video of the incident was posted on the couple’s channel.
Both Christopher and Kimberly were arrested last week and are being held at separate detention centres on US$500,000 bails.
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