Alabama authorities have charged Carlee Russell with two misdemeanors after she admitted to falsely reporting she’d been kidnapped. NBC’s Priscilla Thompson and Danny Cevallos have details.
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Spoiled???
😂😂😂 I called thos a hoax 2 weeks ago.
What this woman did was awful, but I’d like to point out every little boy (especially the white ones) in this comment section who are acting like she’s the devil incarnate, while neglecting to voice their fury over the countless crimes we see older white men commit on the news.
I’m just saying, if you’re annoyed of white dudes accused of being racist and misogynistic, quit making it so easy, fellas. You’re embarrassing me.
Let them commit the hoax, as long as they PAY for all of the resources. If they are minors, the parents are liable, this will end this type of prank pretty quickly imo.
What was she thinking? What was she wanting? Attention?
The judge better not put that beautiful baby in jail
Remember Jesse Smollet? Kids are going to imitate this for years now.
From spa worker and nursing student to a criminal almost overnight . How awful ! I hope she gets the help she needs.
For that big ego she really does. Not even her college degrees can get her a stable job now
Lol and she did it on her own on purpose non the less
Well looks like she will be kidnapped by the jail
so i guess you guys rather her not be found smh
She got kidnapped by justice🤘🏼💯
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Good she needs to be held accountable
ABD SHE SHOULD SERVE THE WHOLE YEAR.
I was chased by green goblin n no one came to save me..
Hopefully she learns her lesson!
I would say something but the you tube police liberals would just ban me for exercising free speech . Thank you you tube
Put her in Maga prison.
Never understand or will why people do this. Stop being bored and get a hobby or go learn something useful
Wow. Misdemeanors. She needs to be charged with felonies and sent to prison.
Lock her up and throw away the keys!
Nothing will happen to her…She is black..blacks can do anything and not get prosecuted..I’m so sick of this race card crap
Lord now the Board of Nursing
They will double check anyone with Carlee Russell’s name 😌
Throw the book at her!
Good
She should be made to repay any money spent on her search.
IMO, she should get the maximum penalty (2 years jail time plus restitution and community service). Carlee refused to meet with investigators from the Hoover Police in person and she refused to provide any information regarding her whereabouts during those 49 hours. To me , that shows a lack of remorse and a lack of genuinely accepting responsibility for her actions. For this and many other reasons. I hope she is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law including 2years jail time. Carlee’s case will set precedents for other similar cases on the future and because her case garnered so much attention, this case and it’s outcome should be used as a deterrent to anyone who is contemplating making false reports to law enforcement.
@riversmcmullan5282
She’s an able-bodied women who most would agree should pay literally (money) and figuratively (community service). Jail? No, because she does not pose a physical threat to society (which is my standard).
I suspect this is a lightening rod issue because:
1) Everyone felt duped.
2) People who are black have a visceral reaction toward incarceration because although there are certainty criminals among us, some are falsely accused or are met with harsher sentences as a result of people viewing them from the warped lens of slavery. Yes, the conditioning of the mind goes back far. Some people who are black are ALSO conditioned over time to not trust anyone who is not of their skin tone.
And so now,, we all are in the midst of a great social tragedy in this country, it’s roots run so deep that few of us have a clue how to remedy it. The truth? It’ll take a huge worldwide paradigm shift to change this. And it will happen! But it’ll happen through a Divine sourcec( WHATEVER you personally choose to name that source. The bigger issue is that many distance themselves or deny that source. Historically in the United States, people who are black NRVER denied that source and I think among the GREAtEST gifts given to this country is THAT..
3) Many people of all colors get a “charge” out of meting punishment. I have to imagine that this type of thinking comes from anger and resentment and maybe even historical biases.
That this person duped EVERYONE and left people of every color feeling betrayed is the glaring hard-to-swallow pill of this story. Ironically, she got people so mad that they themselves could’ve have committed a crime! Just look at these comments for proof!
I say busy her with a VARIETY of community service work and let her lesson be about showing respect for herself and all communities (Homeless, Veterans, Elderly, Poor, Children). We should have a “Community Service Brigade” with membership open to ALL. In this case, if I was the Judge I’d assign her to do community service within her county or the jurisdiction of the court that is prosecuting her. None of us can afford to pay for incarcerations! We are just trying to sustain our own situations.
At the end of the day, what kind of citizen will WE as a nation create after one has committed a crime? Long game, not short.
And don’t hate your creator.
Misdemeanor…? She should have to pay for all the wasted resources and if any federal help she should be charged federally.
Yeah….duh….🤷
Lock her up for a longgggg time !😂 she did this to get attention and get famous for her upcoming ONLY FANS account .
She made sure she looked crazy in that mugshot.
I’m glad she was charged. Her lies were totally reckless.Obviously she’s an attention seeker.
Good! About time!!!👍
A Highway Of Mysteries – What Really Happened To Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell
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CARLETHIA RUSSELL | MODERN DAY GONE GIRL – THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIES!!!
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Trump is the Jussie Smollett and the Carlee Russell of politics.
Glad she’s being charged. But she definitely needs some kind of mental help.
Use her mugshot !!!!!! What’s wrong w y’all?!?!
That’s not Carlee! Open your eyes.
She better see some jail time
I’m still relieved that she’s back home.
I hope she can fully recover from this episode and be at peace. 🙏🏻
Fully recover??? Yeah, let’s enable this brat.
Recover from this episode and stress that she created and brought upon herself? Gimme a break!
At peace until she realizes that she will never have a job now that everyone knows that she a liar
Episode of what?? It was for a man!
You “hope she can fully recover from this episode.” 🤣🤣Are you serious, or joking? A couple of year in jail should help in that recovery.
Trump would approve of this conduct, regardless of her self serving purposes. You go girl
Just trying to setup her future on a reality tv show. Sad what people will do for fame.
Entitled, privileged brat. Full stop.
Make her pay all of the money back that was used to search for her. Also make her serve her sentences consecutively, not concurrently! No probation make her go to jail !!
That’s it? That’s all she was charged with ridiculous remember the white woman that did that guy 18 months in prison
There has to be something mentally wrong here… Who leaves their car running on the side of a highway, and then disappears for two days, and then admits that they faked a kidnapping?? Seems like a cry for help.
And that mugshot.
Did you see how happy,smiley she is?
Shame! Horrible example. We were all rooting for you and now to know it was an attention getter. Get well
I still can’t see a motive for why she did this and why others would follow??🤔😑
Exactly.
This is such a tragedy. Women of color that go missing rarely get press coverage, but the whole world knows who Gabby Petito is. So whats the public perception moving forward now?
She knew her mugshot going viral so she got ready like it’s a school photo
She can also pay restitution.
Good, but also please start calling this police department out. They wouldn’t be stuck revealing everything about this case to the press if they had waited until they gathered actual evidence to start blabbing to the press like a bunch of excited teenagers. These kinds of cases are generally kept as low key as manageable to prevent tons of copycats seeking attention unless there is no alternative. You are effectively the catalyst in several ensuing false kidnapping reports including one involving an 11 year old who needed to be taken into custody in Florida. Congratulations.
Whyd this take so long to charge her?
They werw not sure on what charge to bring,should we guess?🤷♂️🤷♀️🤷
She caused mass panic not just across her community but across the country .What a selfish insensitive thing to do , there’s kids, girls, and women that are actually missing , other crimes going on that I’m sure could’ve used the time resources they used looking for her . And how could she put her family and friends through that. If she wanted to go away for a few days , she’s an adult , she could’ve just left . Instead she lies , essentially ruining her life , causing pain to family and friends and the good Samaritan’s that took time out of what they had going on to search for her .And threw a nursing career for nothing ,mentally sound people don’t do things like this . She needs serious therapy .
All she got was misdemeanor 💀
Misdemeanors???? That’s it??? That’s BS. This is way more serious than a couple of misdemeanors!!
Never play with a 911 call tax payers work to hard
The things people will do for attention these days… If Jussie Smollet was imprisoned for his schlock, then she should be as well!
Interesting knowing what was her MO and just why in it all . ..
I’m sorry but she deserves way more than a year in prison and $6000 fine. Crime Stoppers raised more than $63,000 in reward money for the search of Russell, so many people went out to look for her, a mother that had a child taken and killed supported her family for crying out loud because she thought it was authentic and she wanted Russells family to have a happy ending where she didn’t. Her fake kidnapping put a major damper on actual missing persons cases, her and Sherri Papini and even the Rudy Farias case. She wasted everyones time, money and caused a panic. This kind of thing should not be tolerated! I don’t care if she did it because of mental issues, for the attention or just because she was bored, what she did was wrong and should be punished way more than a year and a tiny fine.
People nowadays are so dumb.
Yet it took 4 yrs to charge Sherri Papini for her 2016 fake kidnapping hmmm
She needs to do more time! If Papini got 18 weeks she needs to do double
She seems very happy on that mugshot.
Poor girl! Her whole life is ruined on tv for white americas entertainment! 😭
Many Urban hood culture women beyond outta control…if you say something thay dont like you get dirty sneaky looks…many hate Accountability feel entitled…something going on…its if many saying i can do what I wanna do. Strange?
The price of (false) fame
Six months in jail and a bill for all the costs incurred for the hoax should be sufficient for this immature woman 🤷🏻♀️
What a shame…smiling in her mugshot.
What’s the point in plotting your own kidnapping?
Piece of trash for a false report. Literally the worst….
Her mug shot says ” i cant wait to do this again ” showing pictures of the typical criminal as usual. I’m a good ole person, i never get in troubles. The better punishment is yet to come with hopes that no one is as stupid as this blank.. to hire her for a job. But! bud lite is still in business.😅
How come the didnt charge Carolyn Bryant for lying and getting Emmitt Till murdered ? she got to live her life as it nothing happened .
Carlee said a white man with orange hair kidnapped her. She forgot to mention the red MAGA hat on the guy, right Jussie?
Typical manipulative narcissist.
I believe she did this for attention! And now she is getting all of the attention this world is full of sick emotionally unstable people, she do not need to become a nurse!!!
Should she get jail time, or should she get psychological help for her mental health?
I just don’t understand peoples obsession with victim hood and WANTING to be/claim a victim… She wants so bad to say she was a victim of something bad in her WELL OFF life, she makes up this crazy kidnapping story and leaves her Apple Watch, wig, IPhone, and Mercedes Benz running on the side of the highway without a care in the world about her car, family, or possible consequences…
She should draw a big L on her forehead.
At the end of the day, these people are all criminals.
It took five years for them to charge Sherri Papini who blamed it on an Hispanic woman.
Didn’t an 11 year old just get in trouble for this same thing?
The charges seem minor compared to her misdeeds, but at least they’re charging her with something.
No don’t do it. BLACK LIES MATTER 😅
Why would anyone do that?
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Also fine her for all the expenses she cost the various agencies. She should serve jail time too.
She was fined. And released. Looks like “rich privilege” at work
#BELIEVEALLWOMEN
ALL THE FAMILY ARE GUILTY THEM JUST WANTED TO BE FAMOUS SHAME ON THEM ALL,THE MUNSTERS
If the parents aided her in anyway, they should also be charged. They won’t be. Carlee should undoubtedly serve some time for this. She won’t. Welcome to the new version of equal justice.
What if you faked your kidnapping, but no public funds were spent looking for you? And no police efforts were made to find you? The police just shoved your missing person report in a drawer. Would you still be charged?
She’s Black all they will do is smack her on the hand if she was white it would be a long jail sentence
Her n Jessie Smollett tryna get support and sympathy for lies …that victim mentality and sense of entitlement is crazy and we starting to see more n more of it
Good