{"id":662045,"date":"2026-05-24T09:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/662045\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T09:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:32:24","slug":"kenton-county-man-accused-of-breaking-into-barbecue-restaurant-arrested-in-dearborn-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/662045\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenton County man accused of breaking into barbecue restaurant arrested in Dearborn County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Kenton County man accused of breaking into an east side Barbecue restaurant is arrested after four days on the run.Police say Pig Candy BBQ&#8217;s cameras caught 44-year-old Chad Snider sneaking in earlier this week.On Saturday, Indiana State Police found him in Dearborn County, accusing him of having a hypodermic syringe or needle.Before his arrest on Tuesday at 8:30 a.m., the restaurant&#8217;s cameras caught him, and so did their cook, Hayley.&#8221;I see over to my right he&#8217;s in our tool shed, he&#8217;s over there smoking a cigarette just going through it, and I confront him, and he tells me he&#8217;s with &#8216;the people,'&#8221; cook Hayley Beusterien said.Before he went inside, Snider threw on a sharp-dressed disguise, a white collared shirt and a vest. Lighting up a cigarette, right next to their meat smoker.&#8221;The cig gave it away, I&#8217;m like you&#8217;re not with any type of department if you&#8217;re in our restaurant smoking a cigarette,&#8221; Beusterien said.After the confrontation, Beusterien  leaves and locks the door to call for help.&#8221;I was nervous because there was some strange man out here that I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; she said.Snider slips out, carrying power tools and kitchen supplies, the restaurant says, worth a few hundred dollars.&#8221;I thought that maybe he dressed up because he was trying to play some kind of part, because he was claiming with poison control,&#8221; Beusterien said. &#8220;Maybe he had some other outfits that helped him get across borders,&#8221; co-owner Christina Goehrig said after the Dearborn County arrest.Pig Candy BBQ said it&#8217;s not worried about the tools.&#8221;They haven&#8217;t told us yet if we&#8217;re getting those back, but I think we&#8217;ll live,&#8221; Goehrig said.They&#8217;re putting the barbecue bandit behind them and focusing on the Memorial Day menu ahead.&#8221;It&#8217;s on a Monday, so of course it&#8217;s ribs,&#8221; Goehrig said. &#8220;Back to making barbecue, and posting our specials on social media instead of our \u2014 this drama that you know, actually didn&#8217;t last that long. Surprisingly, you know from start to finish, he was here Tuesday and what day is it \u2014 Saturday, he&#8217;s behind bars.&#8221;It&#8217;s unclear when Snider will be brought to Hamilton County to face charges.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCINCINNATI \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Kenton County man accused of breaking into an east side Barbecue restaurant is arrested after four days on the run.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Pig Candy BBQ&#8217;s cameras caught 44-year-old Chad Snider sneaking in earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Indiana State Police found him in Dearborn County, accusing him of having a hypodermic syringe or needle.<\/p>\n<p>Before his arrest on Tuesday at 8:30 a.m., the restaurant&#8217;s cameras caught him, and so did their cook, Hayley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see over to my right he&#8217;s in our tool shed, he&#8217;s over there smoking a cigarette just going through it, and I confront him, and he tells me he&#8217;s with &#8216;the people,'&#8221; cook Hayley Beusterien said.<\/p>\n<p>Before he went inside, Snider threw on a sharp-dressed disguise, a white collared shirt and a vest. Lighting up a cigarette, right next to their meat smoker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cig gave it away, I&#8217;m like you&#8217;re not with any type of department if you&#8217;re in our restaurant smoking a cigarette,&#8221; Beusterien said.<\/p>\n<p>After the confrontation, Beusterien  leaves and locks the door to call for help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was nervous because there was some strange man out here that I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Snider slips out, carrying power tools and kitchen supplies, the restaurant says, worth a few hundred dollars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought that maybe he dressed up because he was trying to play some kind of part, because he was claiming with poison control,&#8221; Beusterien said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe he had some other outfits that helped him get across borders,&#8221; co-owner Christina Goehrig said after the Dearborn County arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Pig Candy BBQ said it&#8217;s not worried about the tools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They haven&#8217;t told us yet if we&#8217;re getting those back, but I think we&#8217;ll live,&#8221; Goehrig said.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re putting the barbecue bandit behind them and focusing on the Memorial Day menu ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s on a Monday, so of course it&#8217;s ribs,&#8221; Goehrig said. &#8220;Back to making barbecue, and posting our specials on social media instead of our \u2014 this drama that you know, actually didn&#8217;t last that long. Surprisingly, you know from start to finish, he was here Tuesday and what day is it \u2014 Saturday, he&#8217;s behind bars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear when Snider will be brought to Hamilton County to face charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kenton County man accused of breaking into an east side Barbecue restaurant is arrested after four days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-662045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}