A former Chick-fil-A employee is facing serious legal trouble after police say he cooked up a scheme to siphon $80,000 from a Texas restaurant using hundreds of fraudulent mac and cheese orders.
Keyshun Jones was arrested on April 17 following a lengthy investigation into a series of suspicious refunds at the Grapevine location near Dallas.
Authorities report that Jones was fired from the store this past November. However, termination didn’t keep him away from the registers. According to investigators and reports from Fox 4, Jones allegedly slipped back into the restaurant on multiple occasions to access the point-of-sale system.
Once inside, he would reportedly ring up food orders—specifically targeting the chain’s popular mac and cheese—and then immediately issue refunds directly to his own credit card.
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The scale of the “fromage fraud” was massive. Police allege that Jones rang up approximately 800 separate orders of the side dish to facilitate the thefts. The restaurant eventually flagged the hundreds of phony refunds, prompting an investigation. Security camera footage provided to prosecutors reportedly shows Jones behind the counter performing the bogus transactions.
The financial impact was significant given the volume of the transactions. At this location, a small mac and cheese typically sells for about $5, while a large goes for roughly $10. By the time the patterns were detected, the total loss had climbed to the $80,000 mark.
The legal net began to close on April 6 when an arrest warrant was officially issued. Jones was eventually tracked down and taken into custody by a combined effort from the Fort Worth Police Department and the Texas Attorney General’s Fugitive Task Force.
Jones now faces a slate of felony charges, including property theft, money laundering, and evading arrest. If he is convicted on these counts, he could be sentenced to up to 10 years in state prison. Court records indicate the case is moving forward in Tarrant County.
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