TikTok Prankster Gets Hefty Prison Sentence After Spraying Walmart Produce With Insecticide

We've all known someone who tends to take pranks too far, but it's particularly taxing when we know someone who likes to film these pranks and share them online.

27-year-old TikTok prankster Charles Smith, known as Wolfie Kahletti on the platform (@wolfiekahletti_), is learning this the hard way.

The TikToker frequently went viral for his "prank" videos, like knocking a woman's dinner onto the floor right after she picked it up at the restaurant or dropping a cake onto two men from two stories above.

Though many people found these pranks to be "mean" and "not cool," with some people even concerned about others captured in the videos, like a sweet-looking elderly cook whose hard work was ruined by a bag of ice cubes, the views continued to roll in.

But Smith went way too far when he took a can of bug spray, specifically for bed bugs, and began spraying fresh produce with it.

In December 2024, the TikToker walked into a Walmart in Mesa, Arizona, and filmed himself as he walked along with a spray can of Hot Shot Ultra Bed Bug and Flea Killer—and he sprayed it on a wide array of fruits, vegetables, and rotisserie chickens.

Smith claimed that the act was a prank, but it was clear to others that he realized he must have messed up, because he proceeded to gather up what he could of the items that he had sprayed. But enough time had gone by that some of the items were picked up and purchased by other customers.

The Mesa police department also took issue with the evidence in the video, and two days after he posted it, Smith was arrested. He admitted to stealing the spray from the store and spraying it on other products at the location.

The police reported that the ruined items amounted to more than $931 of contaminated groceries, which had to be thrown away.

You can watch a copy of the video here, as Smith took the original down.

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office charged Smith with multiple offenses, including two felony counts. One was for adding poison to food, and the other was a third-degree charge of burglary of items. Smith also received misdemeanor charges for criminal damage and public endangerment.

As the investigation proceeded, Smith at first attempted to plead not guilty alongside his attorney, but in April, he changed his mind and pleaded guilty.

At that time, the judge gave him a 12-month sentence in jail for adding poison to edible substances. Smith also has three years of probation for criminal damages and burglary beyond the one-year jail time.

The Mesa Police Department wanted the public to understand that consequences would be faced, no matter how popular Smith was on TikTok.

"This incident underscores the potential dangers of reckless actions disguised as social media pranks."

Viewers were disgusted by Smith's actions.

Some also thought that Smith should face more than 12 months of jail time.

Smith is lucky he got an infamous video and a relatively brief sentence out of this, rather than someone becoming sick or worse because of his "prank."

His earliest videos involved him just moving things around, like putting toys in a book section of a store, and turning books upside-down. Things like that are annoying for employees to have to fix, but they're otherwise harmless. This was something else entirely.