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March 18, 2008 | 3:25 pm
It looks like a silly prank intended to get laughs and attention on YouTube. Well, not only has “How to Scam Del Taco” gotten attention, but the video has also landed its star, a 32-year-old aspiring rapper from Rialto, in jail.
The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that Robert Echeverria and two teenagers were arrested after authorities viewed the YouTube video of the trio tricking the crew of a Del Taco drive-through into giving them seven tacos, a large order of fries, two sodas and two quesadillas with extra chicken.
Unlike in some online videos that have shown fast-food workers being attacked, no one gets hurt in Echeverria's production. But prosecutors said the seven-minute clip provided the evidence they needed to press felony commercial burglary charges against Echeverria, who they claim has gang ties, and his accomplices. The two teen boys have posted bail, but Echeverria was unable to come up with enough money and has remained in jail. He was scheduled to appear in court today.
"We were fooling around," Ian Anthony Roman, who shot the video, told the Press-Enterprise. "We never intended it to be anything criminal. It was ridiculously blown out of proportion."
