The woman went out and videoed herself tossing the handgun off a bridge and into Cross Lake. Then she posted the video online and essentially handed the police a warrant for her own arrest. Then a Florida-based YouTube personality saw the video, got in his truck, and drove 13 hours straight to retrieve the handgun.
In early September 2025, 28-year-old Alexis Mullone stood on the Cross Lake Bridge in Shreveport and tossed a Glock into the water below. She recorded the whole thing and uploaded it to social media reportedly Facebook. The video spread fast. People couldn’t believe someone would document dumping what turned out to be a stolen gun. Shreveport Police Department officers spotted the clip and started looking for the weapon themselves.
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That is when Bryce Nachtwey, the person behind the popular YouTube series Outdoors Weekly, received the tag in the video. Nachtwey is the person behind a popular magnet fishing account, which is a hobby in which people throw super-strong neodymium magnets attached to ropes into a lake or river to retrieve metal junk. Nachtwey and his team loaded up a car and drove 13+ hours from Florida to Louisiana.
“It was a good challenge and a chance to assist law enforcement,”
Nachtwey said in follow-up interviews about the trip. They rented a boat, worked side-by-side with Shreveport PD officers on the water, and pulled the handgun out of Cross Lake using their heavy-duty Battle Magnets gear. The full recovery is documented in their YouTube video titled “She Threw This Gun In The River And We Found It.”
Shreveport police confirmed the gun was a stolen Glock traced back to a theft in Fort Worth, Texas. On September 5, 2025, Mullone arrested and charged illegal possession of a stolen firearm and child desertion. During questioning at the station, she admitted leaving her one-year-old child alone in a car outside. The child was safely turned over to family with no harm reported. SPD issued a statement thanking Nachtwey and his team for their “extraordinary efforts” and noted the case was one “you really can’t make this up.”
This is the new normal in U.S. policing. Viral videos that once looked like dumb social-media flexes are now direct leads for detectives. The Shreveport PD Cross Lake Patrol had already viewed the video and had intended to conduct a dive team search when the magnet fishers arrived. Local news outlets such as KSLA, KTAL, and the Shreveport Times reported the joint operation in real-time.
Online, the reaction split between laughs and eye-rolls. Replies flooded in with jokes about “self-snitching” and criminals doing the cops’ job for them. Others questioned whether civilians should be pulling evidence, but SPD shut that down by praising the safe, coordinated effort. The story feels like pure TMZ fuel one dumb video, one long drive, and real consequences.
