WhistlinDiesel, a YouTube influencer, was arrested on Wednesday in Tennessee on two felony counts of alleged tax evasion, according “Us Weekly.”
Cody Detwiler, known as Detwiler, 27, was arrested The YouTuber was released on bond from Williamson County Court later that same day.
According to the indictment obtained by “TMZ,” the charges against WhistlinDiesel, whose real name is Cody Detwiler, is tied to the sales tax owed on a 2020 Ferrari F8 Tributo.
“Won so big they thought I was cheating. (100% real not AI),” WhistlinDiesel posted on Instagram on Thursday.
Detwiler also denied any wrongdoing by commenting, “I didn’t do ANYTHING.”
Detwiler posted a video to YouTube in August of 2023 in which a Ferrari F8 appears. The video showed the car catching fire after Detwiler drove it through a corn field. A van that was being driven alongside the Ferrari caught fire, as well.
“There goes half a million dollars. I guess don’t drive in cornfields,” Detwiler said at one point. “Hard loss, but I can’t say it wasn’t gonna happen anyways. … We’ll recover from this someday.”
In the description of the video, he wrote, “I regret to inform everyone that my $400,000 Ferrari F8 and rental minivan with only 5,000 miles on it has recently burned down to a pile of ash. This was a complete accident and I originally intended on filming so many more things with the car, but this was a great lesson to do even more crazy things before your car catches on fire. Tis But A Scratch! We will be back Ferrari …”
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