Yahoo Autos MrBeast's Mug Shot Resurfaces from His 2018 Arrest for Alleged Street Racing
MrBeast, the impossibly popular YouTube star with his own line of candy bars and his own series of game show controversies, has a fairly clean public image for, well, someone with a series of game show controversies. That perception makes a recent Internet discovery a surprise: Back in 2018, MrBeast was arrested for street racing, according to a local newspaper — and the paper posted the future celebrity's mug shot.
The story is archived in a recently-resurfaced Facebook post from a North Carolina newspaper. According to the January 26, 2018 post by Tar River Times, James Donaldson (MrBeast's real name) was one of three people arrested in a late night traffic stop early in the morning on Sunday, January 21. The post reports that Donaldson and another driver were caught on radar going 122 miles per hour in a 70 mph zone, leading police to arrest both drivers for a "spontaneous speed competition."
Donaldson was charged with speeding, reckless driving, and speed competition, and placed in the Edgecombe County Detention Center on a bond of $100,000, according to a press release issued by the Tarboro Police Department on January 23, 2018.
While the article does not mention what exactly Donaldson was driving in the would-be race, entertainment news outlet Dextero reports that a now-deleted video shows the YouTuber buying a BMW i8 around the time of the arrest. Donaldson was 19 years old in January 2018, and had already been creating videos on YouTube for nearly seven years. He did not address the arrest at the time, and has not yet responded to the recently resurfaced incident as of this story's publication.
Today, his channel has 327 million followers. That makes him the most-followed person on the entire website. He also operates four other channels with more than 25 million followers each. None of the five channels are particularly focused on the automotive world or on the cars he owns, however.
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