Here’s the latest I can share based on recent reporting.
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A Grapevine, Texas Chick-fil-A location reportedly saw an employee charged in connection with an $80,000 fraud scheme centered on fraudulent refunds tied to mac and cheese orders. The suspect was identified as Keyshun Jones; he was terminated in October 2025 and arrested in April 2026 after investigations by local police and other agencies. This story has been covered by several outlets with similar details about the scheme and charges.
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Related coverage notes:
- Local and regional outlets have emphasized the behind-the-counter access and the pattern of ringing up hundreds of orders and issuing refunds to personal cards, culminating in the reported losses.
- International and national outlets have echoed these specifics, sometimes adding details about bond amounts and ongoing legal proceedings.
- There are older, relevant but separate Chick-fil-A fraud cases from other years and locales mentioned in national coverage, but those are not part of this Grapevine incident.
Would you like a quick, side-by-side timeline of events and a summary of charges, or a map of where these reports originated? I can also pull the most recent local updates for Grapevine or nearby Dallas-area coverage if you want.
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The Texas man allegedly refunded the orders of hundreds of catering-sized mac-and-cheese trays to his personal credit cards.
www.bbc.co.ukAccording to the plea agreement, between April 2018 and January 2018, Black and Powell devised and implemented a scheme to divert $492,000 in customer payments to bank accounts under their control. Black and Powell used these accounts to receive customer credit card payments intended for Chick-fil-A Five Points. Many of these payments were for catering orders from large customers. To effectuate the scheme, Black and Powell used fraudulent email and digital payment accounts that imitated the...
www.justice.govPolice allege that a former employee returned to the location and went behind the counter to ring up 800 orders of mac and cheese before refunding it to his credit card.
globalnews.caKeyshun Jones is accused of ringing up approximately 800 orders of macaroni and cheese and then refunding the amount to his personal credit cards.
www.wftv.comTwo former Alabama Chick-fil-A employees have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a scheme to steal nearly a half-million dollars from the Georgia-based fast-food firm. The U. S. Department of Justice said a federal judge in Alabama handed down the sentences on Thursday. Both former employees were directors at a Chick-fil-A location in Birmingham.
newschannel9.comPolice in Grapevine say a former Chick-fil-A employee is accused of stealing more than $80,000 by fraudulently refunding transactions to himself.
www.cbsnews.comA 16-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges Larry James Black, Jr., 37, of Center Point, the former Director of Hospitality at Chick-fil-A Five Points, and Joshua Daniel Powell, 40, of Moody, a former Manager at the same location, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud. Black was also charged with bank fraud and misuse of a social security number. According to the indictment, Black and Powell devised and implemented a scheme to divert hundreds of thousands of...
www.justice.govGrapevine police arrested former Chick-fil-A employee Keyshun Jones for an $80,000 refund fraud scheme involving mac and cheese. NewsRadio 1080 KRLD
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