{"id":426447,"date":"2026-09-04T21:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426447\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T21:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:00:36","slug":"authorities-foil-golden-chick-robbery-plot-by-grand-prairie-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426447\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities foil Golden Chick robbery plot by Grand Prairie employee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas &#8211; A Grand Prairie Golden Chick employee is facing up to two decades in prison after allegedly coming up with a plan to rob the store she worked at for $4,000.<\/p>\n<p> Golden Chick robbery attempt   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">44-year-old Laura Gonzalez was arrested on August 6 and charged with attempted robbery.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators say she concocted a plan to rob a Golden Chick restaurant in Grand Prairie where she was employed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A criminal complaint states on August 3, Gonzalez contacted a person on Facebook Messenger for $500 for vehicle payments. When the person said no, Gonzalez proposed robbing the Golden Chick store.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The person Gonzalez contacted for money was an undercover ATF agent.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/39bd8698-f2706348-police-tape-police-lights.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Gonzalez communicated via text messages and phone calls with the undercover agent about stealing $3,000 to $4,000 from the safe inside the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">She discussed entering the business through an unlocked rear door, and said that it would be better to rob the store at night when fewer employees were working.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Gonzalez also stated she had a firearm to use in the attempted robbery.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A second ATF undercover agent met with Gonzalez on August 5, where she discussed where security cameras were located in the Golden Chick.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">If convicted, Gonzalez could face up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from a criminal complaint against Laura Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/grand-prairie\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Prairie<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas &#8211; A Grand Prairie Golden Chick employee is facing up to two decades in prison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1046,581,1279,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-426447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas-county","tag-grand-prairie","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426447","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=426447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}