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image captionTwins Alex and Alan Stokes have more than six million followers on YouTube
A pair of YouTubers have pleaded guilty to faking a bank robbery that led to an unsuspecting Uber driver being held at gunpoint by police.
Alan and Alex Stokes, 24, who have six million followers on their channel, wore balaclavas and called an Uber as a getaway vehicle.
But the driver, who was unaware of the prank, refused to drive them.
A judge in California sentenced the twins to community service and a year s probation for misdemeanour.
They could each have faced up to five years in prison for the pranks.
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