Scott Kitfield was arrested for evading police in 2023, but police quickly found evidence that he’d been recording himself speeding around the Bay Area for his YouTube page.
MARTINEZ — Prosecutors say he posted point-of-view videos of himself reaching 100-plus miles per hour in hopes of building an online following on YouTube.
The April 3 plea deal closes the latest California case involving crimes-for-views committed by people hoping to cash in on the independent streaming craze. Others include the man who deliberately crashed a small airplane in Santa Barbara and wasKitfield was arrested last July for allegedly driving around 120 mph across the Benicia Bridge, then evading a California Highway Patrol officer who attempted to pull him over.
The videos also grabbed the attention of Reddit users, some of whom posted threads complaining about his dangerous driving. In, an anonymous user came to Kitfield’s defense and several others accused that person of actually being Kitfield, but it was never confirmed. In addition to the jail time, probation and monitoring by police, the plea deal required Kitfield to sign an important waiver that could come back to haunt him if he ever crashes his vehicle: It’s an acknowledgment that he could be charged with murder in the event that his reckless driving kills a person sometime in the future.
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