- YouTuber King Cid was arrested for misusing 911,
police say. - Cid, whose legal name is Jason Cid, said he witnessed "weird, suspicious activities" at a gas station.
YouTuber King Cid, who has 2 million subscribers on the platform, was last week arrested after he and his friends in January misused 911 as part of a YouTube "coke" prank, according to police.
Cid, whose legal name is Jason Cid, in a video uploaded to his YouTube channel showed the January 27 incident. In the video, Cid told a friend call local police about "weird, suspicious activities" at a gas station in Southern
But the car the friend reported to the dispatcher was the one occupied by Cid and his friends.
Cid was charged with the third-degree felony "misuse 911," according to the arrest warrant seen by Insider. He was arrested with a bond amount of $2,500, according to the warrant.
Clyde Parry, the chief of the Coral Springs Police Department, in a video to Twitter on Friday said he was "personally offended by the waste of resources" the prank caused.
"Jason Cid did this in the hopes of showing how overly aggressive police officers are when they respond to these calls," he said. "As you can see from the video, my officers responded and were polite and professional, as they investigated a fictitious situation that was created by Jason Cid and his accomplices."
Cid did not return Insider's request for comment. A representative for the Coral Springs Police declined to comment, but confirmed the investigation was ongoing.
—Coral Springs Police (@CoralSpringsPD) February 4, 2022
In the video, Cid said he intended to call police to the scene, who would find a suspect behaving in a way consistent with someone who was selling drugs. When police arrived to the car, police questioned Cid and his friends about why they were at the gas station.
Then one person said to the officer "We got stuff in the trunk," and another one of Cid's friends stated: "I'm not going to jail for you."
Another van of police officers pulled up, and Cid and his friends were told to step out of the car. When police searched the vehicle, they found the trunk was not full of cocaine but of Coca-Cola. After police completed their search of the car, Cid and his friends were free to go.
The video depicting the incident, which was titled "Coke Prank On Aggressive Cops!," is publicly available to view on Cid's channel, and it has been viewed over 800,000 times.
"Jason Cid and his accomplices think they're funny but what they really are doing is taking four Coral Springs police officers out of service for other true emergencies," he said. "While these officers were tied up on a made up call, they were unavailable to respond to vehicle accidents, EMS calls, heart attacks, and other real emergencies.
Seven "emergency calls or services" were delayed due to the prank, Parry said, adding "other subjects may be arrested as wel."
"This type of behavior is not funny, and it can lead to serious injury and death," he said. "This is a dangerous prank that could have led to deadly consequences."
Parry said others caught behaving this way would be held accountable, and "charged accordingly."
"As you can see, the joke's on him," he concluded, next to a video of Cid being arrested.