{"id":358994,"date":"2026-07-02T19:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358994\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:33:07","slug":"ex-employee-charged-in-armed-robbery-of-bushs-chicken-in-lacy-lakeview-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358994\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-employee charged in armed robbery of Bush\u2019s Chicken in Lacy Lakeview, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\">LACY LAKEVIEW, Texas (KWTX) &#8211;<\/a> Police arrested Ladarrius Arrington, 20, a former employee at Bush\u2019s Chicken, after an armed robbery at the Central Texas restaurant Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Arrington was charged with aggravated robbery, interference with emergency request for assistance, and unlawful carry of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The robbery happened July 1 shortly before 9 p.m. in the 1000 block of East Crest View Drive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said Arrington, dressed in black, entered the fast food restaurant through the employee door. He brandished a firearm, and pointed the firearm at employees, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the robbery, Arrington allegedly took a phone belonging to one of the employees, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Arrington then proceeded to steal a few hundred dollars in cash and then ran away from the scene, police allege. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was located a few blocks away from the restaurant and surrendered without incident after an officer pointed his service weapon at him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to an arrest warrant obtained by KWTX, Arrington admitted to police that he robbed the restaurant because they owed him money from the time he was an employee. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Arrington is being held at the McLennan County Jail on bonds totaling 120,000. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LACY LAKEVIEW, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; Police arrested Ladarrius Arrington, 20, a former employee at Bush\u2019s Chicken, after an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[127565,127566,127567,48717,127568,127564,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-358994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-armed-robbery-at-lacy-lakeview","tag-bushs-chicken","tag-bushs-chicken-armed-robbery","tag-lacy-lakeview","tag-lacy-lakeview-police","tag-ladarrius-arrington","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358994","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=358994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}