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5 min readIn December 2024, a 28-year-old Arizona TikToker named Charles Smith, who posted as Wolfie Coletti, walked into a Mesa Walmart, picked up a can of Raid bug killer, and sprayed it onto produce. He filmed the whole thing and uploaded it. That video, which earned roughly 200 likes, is the reason he is now facing up to nine years in prison. Smith has pleaded guilty to two felony counts of adding poison or other harmful substances to food, one misdemeanor count of endangerment, and one misdemeanor count of criminal damage. His sentencing is scheduled for June 24, 2025.
The escalation from nuisance to felony
Smith did not start with poison. For months before the Walmart incident, he built a following by recording "prank" content that targeted the least powerful people around him: fast food workers, laundromat customers, and dollar store employees. His videos show him dumping a bag of ice into a deep fryer at Jack in the Box, throwing a dead pigeon into a restaurant kitchen, and smashing a cake into a woman's face. As the commentary in the episode notes, his targets were almost always low-wage workers or people who could not easily sue him. The ice-in-fryer stunt—which could have started a fire—was treated as a nuisance. The dead pigeon was gross but not a major crime. The authorities had apparently noticed him, but none of these acts triggered an arrest. The Raid video was diff
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:27) **Introduction to Charles Smith (Wolfie Coletti)** - Asmongold introduces the TikToker who poisoned food at Walmart and is now facing prison time.
- 2 (03:29) **Background: The "Real Life Villain" Persona** - Wolfie built a TikTok career on being a public nuisance, targeting low-wage workers and vulnerable people.
- 3 (04:44) **Worst Offenses Before the Poisoning** - A montage of Wolfie's earlier pranks, including putting bacon in people's shoes and dumping ice into deep fryers.
- 4 (13:49) **The Escalation to Poisoning** - The host explains that the food poisoning video was the one that finally got authorities to act, after months of lesser nuisance crimes.
- 5 (14:56) **Arrest and Charges** - Wolfie turned himself in to Mesa Police in December 2024 and admitted to the crime, leading to multiple felony charges.
- 6 (16:47) **The Legal Fallout** - The host details how Wolfie's own videos became evidence against him, and how his case moved through the court system.
- 7 (21:47) **The 10-Minute Window of Danger** - Asmongold explains the critical gap where customers could have bought contaminated produce, highlighting the recklessness of the act.
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