A Chick-fil-A worker got fired and then showed up behind the register to allegedly refund himself over $80,000 in mac and cheese
Keyshun Jones, a 23-year-old former Chick-fil-A employee in Grapevine, Texas, was arrested and charged with multiple felonies after allegedly stealing over $80,000 through a fraudulent refund scheme involving mac and cheese orders. After being fired in October 2025, Jones reportedly returned to the restaurant and used the register to process hundreds of fake transactions, refunding the money to his personal credit card. Surveillance footage and cooperation from the franchise owner led to the investigation, and Jones was taken into custody in April 2026 after evading arrest.
- ▪Keyshun Jones was arrested and charged with property theft, money laundering, evading arrest, and fraud after allegedly stealing over $80,000 from a Chick-fil-A in Grapevine, Texas.
- ▪Jones allegedly processed around 800 fraudulent mac and cheese orders and issued refunds to his personal Navy Federal Credit Union account after being fired in October 2025.
- ▪Surveillance footage showed Jones behind the register without authorization, leading the franchise owner to alert detectives on November 29.
- ▪A warrant was issued on April 6, 2026, and Jones was apprehended on April 17 with help from the Texas Attorney General’s Fugitive Task Force and Fort Worth Police Department.
- ▪If convicted, Jones could face up to 10 years in prison under Texas law, and he is being held on a total bond of $111,500.
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When most people get fired from a job, they pick up and move on. For Keyshun Jones, he allegedly went back for seconds.Recommended Video The 23-year-old former Chick-fil-A employee in Grapevine, Texas, has been arrested and charged with multiple felonies after allegedly stealing more than $80,000 from a franchise location using a fraudulent refund scheme, and authorities say it was all caught on camera. Jones was fired from the Dallas-suburb location in October 2025. But the following month, detectives reviewed surveillance footage and found Jones behind the counter without authorization. There, prosecutors allege, Jones began using the restaurant’s register to ring up roughly 800 orders of macaroni and cheese trays, all before he issued refunds to his personal credit cards.
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