Helt took center stage at Sunday 's VMA broadcast to accept the best video of 2014 award `` on behalf of the 1.6 million runaways and homeless youths in the United States who are starving , lost and scared for their lives right now . '' An arrest warrant was issued for Jesse Helt in 2011 , a corrections official says . He stopped checking in with probation officer after criminal trespass conviction , he says . Police : ` ` You ' ve got to go after Jesse instead of covering '' the youth homelessness issue . Jesse will spend a year in jail for his probation violation , the official says .
An arrest warrant was issued for Jesse Helt in 2011 , a corrections official says . He stopped checking in with probation officer after criminal trespass conviction , he says . Police : ` ` You ' ve got to go after Jesse instead of covering '' the youth homelessness issue . Jesse will spend a year in jail for his probation violation , the official says .