Charles TenBroeck, known online as Tom Rizz, pleaded guilty in Wayne County on Oct. 8 to third-degree fleeing police, according to ClickOnDetroit. The plea concerns the fleeing-police charge, not complaints about his recordings. He is expected to be sentenced at 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 9; ClickOnDetroit reported that his TikTok page was still active as of Oct. 11.
Michigan law provides a maximum sentence of five years in prison for third-degree fleeing and eluding when specified circumstances apply. The statute sets a possible penalty, not the sentence TenBroeck will receive.
The earlier recording complaints
In its December 2025 investigation, ClickOnDetroit reported that two women filed a police incident complaint on Dec. 15 after disputes in a Livonia Facebook group. The women told the outlet that TenBroeck shared personal information about women who objected to his content and was later removed from the group.
ClickOnDetroit also reported that police told the women they had limited options, and that officers found the videos did not meet the elements of a crime and closed the case. Those complaints and the police response are separate from the fleeing-police plea.
Recording and the law
The December investigation further reported that TenBroeck acknowledged disabling the recording light on his Meta glasses. Michigan’s eavesdropping statute defines eavesdropping in relation to recording or transmitting another person’s private discourse without permission. That definition by itself does not establish whether every recording or related action is lawful.
