{"id":270634,"date":"2026-04-29T01:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270634\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:20:22","slug":"former-texas-chick-fil-a-employee-charged-in-80k-refund-scheme-using-mac-and-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270634\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Texas Chick-fil-A employee charged in $80K refund scheme using mac and cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cfa-workers-steals-80k.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">GRAPEVINE, Texas &#8211; A former Chick-fil-A employee is accused of stealing more than $80,000 through a fraudulent refund scheme after being fired, police said.<\/p>\n<p>   Chick-fil-A mac and cheese fraud <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Grapevine police said the investigation began in November 2025 after the owner of a local Chick-fil-A reported a theft.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/keyshun-darnell-jones-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Detectives reviewing surveillance footage identified the suspect as Keyshun Jones, a former employee who had been terminated about a month earlier. Police said the footage shows Jones behind the counter without authorization, where he allegedly used the restaurant\u2019s register to ring up roughly 800 orders of macaroni and cheese trays and then issue refunds to his personal credit cards.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cctvimage-of-cfa-employee-stealing.jpeg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy: City of Grapevine <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Authorities said the transactions totaled just over $80,000.<\/p>\n<p> Arrest details <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police said Jones evaded arrest despite multiple attempts to locate him. He was taken into custody April 17, 2026, with assistance from the Texas Attorney General\u2019s Fugitive Task Force and the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Jones faces charges of property theft, money laundering and evading arrest, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided by Grapevine Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/food-drink\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Food and Drink<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/restaurants\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Restaurants<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/grapevine\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grapevine<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/organization\/fort-worth-police\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth Police Department<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/business\/small-business\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Small Business<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article GRAPEVINE, Texas &#8211; A former Chick-fil-A employee is accused of stealing more than $80,000 through a fraudulent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[910,1046,3613,3737,1352,242,223,1827,354,325,122,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":["post-270634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-business","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-food-drink","tag-fort-worth-police","tag-grapevine","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-restaurants","tag-small-business","tag-tarrant-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}