VIDEO UPDATE: Off-duty policeman nabs TikTok ‘bread huckers’ at Arkadelphia Walmart

This post was updated 4/10/25

A pair of jokesters in Arkadelphia Walmart were arrested when their prank attracted the attention of the wrong person — an off-duty cop who was shopping in the store.

One of the two Central Arkansas men had climbed atop a freezer in the frozen goods section Sunday evening, April 6, and yelling down at customers, claiming he was stuck, and tossing loaves of bread into customers’ shopping carts below.

The suspects would later be identified as 25-year-olds Christian Sansbury and Taylor Reaves, who list a shared Mabelvale address. Sansbury donned a Walmart vest, giving the appearance that he was an associate, while Reaves filmed the shenanigans from below.

Their actions reportedly upset some customers who left the store, alerting Walmart associates of the situation on their way out. The store’s asset protection employee attempted to apprehend the men but was met with flying loaves of bread they were throwing at him. Reaves was attempting to flee the store when Randy Windham, an off-duty officer of the Arkadelphia Police Department, grabbed him and asked what was going on.

Windham noted in an incident report that he had been shopping when he observed the tomfoolery, hearing Sansbury yell “Help, I can’t get down,” as other customers began searching for the source of distress cries.

Once Windham had a grasp on the fleeing Reaves, he was pointed to Sansbury — still on top of the freezer section. Instructed to climb down from the freezers and informed of Windham’s capacity as a policeman, Sansbury descended from the freezer and attempted to flee, according to the police report. Walmart employees aided in apprehending Sansbury, who was escorted with Reaves to the asset protection office to await on-duty police officers.

Asset protection informed officers that the two men had previously been banned for life from Walmart properties. 

The 25-year-olds have a social media following of some 146,000 TikTok followers interested in a viral prank — not unique to them — known as “bread hucking”. But Walmart shoppers and authorities didn’t find humor in the prank: Sansbury and Reaves were hauled off to the Clark County Detention Center, where they were booked on charges of harassment, disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing. They spent a little over an hour in the county jail before being released.

Sansbury emailed a statement to The Arkadelphian on Thursday: “I look at it as a harmless joke, in years from now the people getting bread tossed in [their] cart will laugh at the experience, because it’s an experience that will only happen once.”

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