YouTuber Duke Dennis arrested

HOUSTON: YouTuber Duke Dennis was arrested at a Texas mall on Saturday while playing hide-and-seek with a group of friends after hours in a mall after closing hours, according to the police.

Police encountered Dennis, whose full name is Denzel Shaquille Dennis, after being called around 10pm about a disturbance at the Shops at Rivercenter in San Antonio.

Officials said Dennis and his friends were “causing disruption throughout the area,” and had refused to leave despite being warned by mall security guards.

The Twitch star, part of the AMP collective alongside fellow streaming celebrity Kai Cenat, verbally and physically refused similar warnings from police.

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When an officer told Dennis to put his hands behind his back, the 31-year-old “jumped back and started running away,” according to a police report obtained by the San Antonio Express-News.

Streamer Duke Dennis faces charges of criminal trespassing and evading arrest over an August 2 incident, in which police say the content creator was playing hide-and-seek in a closed San Antonio mall

Unverified video on social media appears to show Dennis being put in handcuffs as Cenat watches from an upper floor.

Dennis was charged with criminal trespass and evading arrest, and released on Sunday on a $1,000 bond for each charge after being put in jail in Bexar County, according to public records.

“Officially on vacation, need suggestions on where to go…See y’all later,” Dennis wrote on Instagram on Sunday.

Dennis has over 3.2 million followers on Twitch and is a member of the AMP streaming collective alongside Kai Cenat

Dennis was recently detained in China after law enforcement found a bullet in his bag.

The streamer said the bullet was put in the bag before visiting the country as he cleaned out his car.

The streamer was released without being charged or facing any jail time in that incident.