Come on, come on, come on, everyone, everyone. Come on, COME ON, COME ON. COME ON, EVERYONE GET YOU THINK THIS is like a TikTok thing? >> It is a TikTok thing. I clocked it immediately. Nice. Good job mopping that. These idiots are going to do this to the wrong guys. Or a guy that's having a bad day, and they're going to get hurt. When a TikTok prank draws millions of views online, a young influencer sets out to top it with an even bigger viral hit. But after one stunt spirals into chaos and violence, the attention it brings is not the kind he had in mind. Tempe police, come to the front door, nothing in your hands. The following is based on official police records to date, and some of the footage has never been seen before until now. Please note that all persons charged with a crime are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law. On March 17th, 2025, police in Tempe, Arizona, respond to a Chipotle after the manager, Emma, reported an unusual encounter at the restaurant. I'm assuming you're Emma. Yeah. Can you tell me what happened? Yeah, I can show you videos. I had a customer You think this is like a TikTok thing? >> It is a TikTok thing. I clocked it immediately. Uh and yeah, it was just like harassing and just getting in the face and stuff. Your person sizes have been lacking. So, I'm here to make sure you guys are staying in check. Get out of my store. So, I'm going to clean house. Go ahead and bring in the guys. Call the police. What is going on? I have my No, no, you guys need to leave. These are my workers. No. My workers. No, they're not your My workers, please. These are my workers. No. You guys have to leave. Get out of my store. The mop, I need everyone cleaning. You're doing a great JOB, SIR. NICE. GOOD JOB mopping that. I need workers to check that the chickens are all right. No. Get out of my store. Um no. Pick this up. Get the napkins and these tacos over here, guys. The group of fake workers all appear to be dressed in Chipotle branded hats and t-shirts. Emma claims that business was disrupted by the group's behavior, some of which was captured on video by an employee and a customer. Oh my god, no. Get out of my store. You're doing a great job, sir. I'm allowed to be Somebody please come out here, guys. What the Yeah. It was delicious. Yeah. Please stop them over here, guys. Is that all right? Good job, sir. I appreciate that. Who wants to go back in the back checking with these good guys? Oh my god. All right, EVERYONE. WE QUIT. DO YOU WANT THE INCIDENT documented or since they're gone? >> mean, they're gone, so I guess it's fine. I don't I don't know if we need a document in or not. I mean >> Do you? However you want it. I mean, there's not much to do about it, so it's fine. >> Yeah. By the time police arrived, the video had already begun circulating online, and it didn't take long for Emma to locate the source. Oh, this is the Tik Tok guy, actually. His name is This is his Tik Tok. Heston James. He's been going around a whole bunch of different stores. The Tik Tok account @taraclawt is owned by 24-year-old Heston James Cobb. On both Tik Tok and Instagram. Heston gained a following by pranking employees at recognizable stores, including Target, Michaels, Home Depot, and Best Buy. His Instagram reels alone have been collectively viewed over 700 million times. Uh, I'm not sure if this is the exact kid, but I don't know who else was doing this at like Little Caesars. >> Yeah. Yeah, I think I've seen this guy's videos. According to police records, no formal report was taken on this incident. As it stood, no one was harmed or assaulted, and nothing was damaged or taken from the restaurant. Less than 4 months later, however, Tempe officers would once again hear the name Heston James. On July 2nd, 2025, Heston and his group appeared at a Jiffy Lube auto shop. This time, the fake workers donned blue jumpsuits, carried tools, and pretended to work on cars, as captured on both an employee's phone and the company's security cameras. Good. All right, get everyone over here. Ah. Hey, SO EVERYONE LOWER. SAY BYE. HEY. YOU GOT TO LOOK. WHAT WHAT THE COP DO? I GOT THE POLICE. HEY, HANG UP THE PHONE. HANG UP THE PHONE. DON'T TOUCH ME, THOUGH. DON'T TOUCH ME. ALL RIGHT, YEAH. OKAY, EVERYONE. EVERYONE. EVERYONE, let's go. Come Everyone, LET'S GO. LET'S GO. LET'S GO. YES. EVERYONE, LET'S GO. NEXT STOP. WELL DONE. LET'S GO. All right, I got a bunch of guys. You got a bunch. According to police records, no one was assaulted, nothing was stolen or damaged, and if Heston recorded anything, it wasn't published to his social media platforms. But, he was far from finished. The next day, Heston's group targeted three more auto shops, including one owned by a man named Dave, who shares his fears that their actions will quickly lead to dangerous consequences if they aren't stopped. These idiots are going to do this to the wrong guys, or a guy that's having a bad day, and they're going to get hurt. Officers learned that those concerns became a reality during the group's final prank of the day, when they were dispatched to a Pet Supplies after a 911 caller reported a strong arm robbery. Hello. Hi. Have you guys seen this these two before or anything? No. Uh how many were there? 15? 15 easy. 10 to 15 guys. Whatever fits in that van. It was loaded. Seriously? >> Yes. Wow. All right. It was a loaded. A loaded. Nothing that we've ever seen before. I'm going to be frank with being frank. But Cool. I will do that. >> Though they had no working cameras, the manager's account of what happened closely mirrors a video Heston posted to TikTok showing the same prank unfolding at a different auto shop. Just like in the video, the Pet Boys manager claims they were approached by two young men who said they were from corporate. I'm just going to be bringing all my guys cuz you guys have been doing a really slow job. I've been getting multiple complaints. >> I'm from corporate. I told you. So, This is corporate game. I'm Well, I'm calling in my guys, and they're going to be working on all these cars. They're not? They're They're getting the call now. Oh, getting the call now? All right, let's see. They are right here. I think this is them right here. Come on. Come on. Come on. Everyone. Everyone. Come on. COME ON. COME ON. COME ON. EVERYONE. GET TO WORK. GET TO WORK. AN EMPLOYEE OF THE PET BOYS DESCRIBED seeing the group pile out of the van much in the same way. It was a full-size like a passenger van that holds like 15 people. And there was a ton of them coming out. It was like a clown car. One after another. All of them were bringing tire irons, uh tools of some sort, weapons, uh and piling out. They were literally tire irons in the bay. And I was telling them no nobody comes in. They forced their way in. Did anyone touch you with anything? Forced their way through. Pushed you over and did it all up. >> yes, and pushed. >> And they pushed Yeah, might not have been with hands, could have been with shoulders, but I was moved out of the way so that they could gain access. In the TikTok recording, the fake employees can be seen carrying in tools, which they use as they pretend to work on the cars under Heston's instruction. Yo, everyone, take that tire off. Take that tire off. Wait. Uh, I got something for you, though. Everyone, check oil. Check the oil. It's good. IT'S GOOD. IT'S GET UNDER THERE. GET UNDER THERE. WELL DONE. GET OUT. YEAH, OH YEAH. NICE. NICE. GOOD JOB, EVERYONE. I CAN'T DO CHEAPER THAN A thousand for the catalytic. I'm telling you. IT'S LEAKING OIL. Though the recorded incident ended in a clean getaway for the pranksters, the one at Pep Boys took a very different turn. The manager explains that when the fake employees began trying to work on customers' cars, he armed himself with a torque wrench and told them all to leave. >> Get everybody out. Get the out of the shop. Get out of here. They were backing out, and Alex, the manager, was in front of the van. They start moving towards it, so I took the crowbar and I hit the windshield to get the driver to stop. And that's where I saw them. Yeah. According to the employee, the windshield, as well as both the driver and passenger side windows, were shattered before the group escaped. After interviewing other employees, officers learned that one of the pranksters took a tire iron that belonged to the store, and another shoved a technician during a physical altercation. According to police records, one of the videos had amassed roughly 8.9 million views by mid-July, along with 448,000 likes and over 4,000 comments. The detective later spoke with Dave, the owner of one of the targeted auto shops, who emphasized the impact the video seemed to have on the employees. The tire store that he hit, the one that actually got posted, that's the big brand tire there on Southern and Mill. Yep. Um you need to go and talk to that kid. He has people driving by his location and heckling him as he's trying to work. It happened last week. Oh, wow. He was the one that actually in the video reached down and yanked the kid out from underneath the car. Mhm. Um because the the [clears throat] engine was just sitting there balanced on a 2 by 4 cuz the transmission was out of the car and he didn't want that kid getting crushed. >> Oh, Jesus. They're throwing in a car and stuff. Everybody leans against the the Iraq. He pushes that thing down. You think that kid's going to thought think it was funny at that point that he killed his friend? Probably not. One week later on July 23rd, 2025, police prepare to arrest 24-year-old Heston James at his home and execute a search warrant. Bad food delivered about 10 minutes ago. Some bad people at home. Tempe Police Department, we have a search warrant. You need to come to the front door with nothing in your hands. Heard something. Yep. Hey guys, we know you're inside. We have a search warrant for the residence. You have to come to the front door. More doors opening and closing inside. I can hear all kinds of stuff moving inside. It's the Police Department. We have a search warrant. Yeah, open the door and I'll show it to you. WE DON'T GET WE DON'T GET TO NEGOTIATE. Open the door and I'll show it to you. I have it here. Open the door and I'll show it to you. What's that? It's for the house. The house? I have a search warrant for the house. It's signed by a judge at the superior court. You got to come outside. Uh who in particular are you looking for? You need to come outside. It doesn't matter who we're looking for. We have a warrant for the house. Come outside and I'll show it to you. Okay. Okay, no answer. Hurry. Put your hands behind your back. Step away from the door for me. We have a warrant actually. Do you have any weapons on your person? No. All right. So, we have a search warrant for the house. Right now, you're under arrest, okay? For Right, you're under arrest for uh few different things. Uh disorderly conduct, trespassing, uh criminal impersonation, and burglary. What's the Why Why Why are you searching the house though? What's that have to do with anything? Let me show you the search warrant, but it strolls up to the cases that we have. Okay. So, it's the pranks that you've been doing like all over at the auto shops and at the Chipotle and stuff. I'm not going to say anything until I have a lawyer present. That's fine, but I'll show you the search warrant, but we do have a warrant for the house to grab some things out of there. I'll show you the warrant. What we're looking for is on that warrant, okay? Heston states that he lives with two other roommates, but he isn't sure if either of them are currently home. Officers cautiously clear the house one room at a time. There are cats in here. What's that? Yeah. Do you want to Do you want to pop it and I'll I see. Whenever Ready? I'm going to check on your cat. Ready? There's TV on there. Okay. Should we pop it? There's TV on there. Hey, Tempe police. >> Tempe police. If you're in here, you need to come out with your hands up. Oh. Hey, put your hands on top of your head. Okay. Face away from me. Sorry. Face away. Yeah. Yeah, hands. Cross your fingers. Walk to me. Stop. Turn to your left. Face the house. With me, all right. Yep. What is happening? You got picked. I got picked. So, we have a search warrant for the house. We've been out here making announcements for a while, dude. Did you not hear us? No. Okay. My boyfriend lives here. I was just Okay. chilling at his place. >> First name is 460 getting a second degree. Uh Jake. >> Is Jake here right now? No. Okay. The man who identifies himself as Forest explains he's been playing video games while wearing headphones, which is why he didn't hear the announcements. He confirms that Jake and Heston's other roommate are out, leaving the house now empty. During the search, officers find Meta AI glasses likely used to record the pranks, as well as uniforms bearing the logos of multiple businesses, including Chick-fil-A, UPS, Target, Home Depot, and Raising Cane's. Along with these items, police uncover what appears to be Heston's journal detailing his goals and plans. Two months before the Chipotle incident, he writes, "I have no other choice but to make this work by any means possible. I will give my family the best life due to my hard work. I cannot afford to miss a single day. This is my year." With Heston facing multiple charges, Dave questioned whether or not there would also be consequences for those who helped him. All the 20 people that were a part of it, they all need to be charged with trespassing and criminal mischief. >> Which is a little bit more difficult because obviously their name >> You would have to identify them. That's the hard part. >> with that. He probably paid these guys. I'm like and I'm almost positive he'd be like, "Well, I'll just take this and go with it." I still don't know why all of them looks like a package. Their hair, yeah. >> Yeah. According to court documents, 24-year-old Heston James Cobb was indicted on three counts of felony burglary in the third degree, three counts of felony criminal impersonation, two counts of criminal trespass in the second degree, and five counts of disorderly conduct. He entered a plea of not guilty, and the case is still ongoing. At this time, it is unknown if any of the other participants are being investigated or will face charges. Get the full story without the restrictions, including longer cuts, mostly uncensored episodes, and exclusive originals. Sign up for the E W Plus app, available on iOS, Roku, Amazon Fire, and Google.