Billy Cannon
Billy Cannon
Billy Cannon is a luxury car dealership owner in Milwaukee known for interrogating a Mike Edwards on Facebook Live who along with three others stole three vehicles and other items from the store.
Personal Life & Activites
Born and raised in the state of Wisconsin, he grew up in the town of Wauwatosa. He has a good friendship with his sister and mother and spends a lot of time with them. He is an uncle to two nieces.
Billy believes that he was born a hustler except that he ended up hustling the wrong product - drugs.
After doing extensive prison time, he decided to do the right thing, for himself, and for his family.
He once worked at Walmart after being led out of prison for quite some time. During his incarceration, he spent a lot of his time reading books and educating himself on business and a myriad of other things he felt he would need to have in order to make it in the world once he was released.
Criminal History
Clip of the teenager speaking with Billy about the theft.
Billy has a history of having some trouble with the law often going in and out of prison.
He was in Levenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas which is considere one of the roughest in the nation. The last time he was out of prison he had no money except his family to help him get started.
Theft Incident
On May 20th, 2017, four teenagers broke into the dealership belonging to Billy and stole three of his vehicles along with other important items.
Billy decided to do some detective work and asked around.
After a few tips he took to Social media to scoop some of the tips he received and found that Mike Edwards had actually posted a photo of himself driving one of the stolen cars on his Facebook.
Mike got in touch after Billy inquired about them.
Billy just asked the teen to bring the car back.
When the teen arrived with the car, Billy got inside along with a witness who sat in the back seat and began interrogating the teenager about the theft.
Mike went through the scenario of what happened and every so often referring to the other people involved some details about his crew and who he runs with.
Mike protested and asked why he was being recorded but then Billy said to him "Cause you a car thief.
You a stollie rider".
Throughout the video, Billy verbally chastises Mike to the point where the teenager almost breaks down in tears.
The video immediately became a viral sensation with more than 400k views.
Arrest
On May 24th, 2017, he was charged for abuse of a child and later turned himself in.
The day before he took to Facebook live to announce he was turning himself in and spent several minutes about his life and what he went through to clean himself up as an individual and own a business.
Billy believes that due to his criminal past, the police don't have much trust on him, but he hopes the community will come out in his support in his attempt to make an example of the criminal activity vibrating in his neighborhood.