Pastor ‘tried to push wife’s McDonald’s coworker into deep fryer’
A pastor allegedly pushed a McDonald’s cook’s head toward a deep fryer after his wife who was a manager-in-training claimed employees were disrespecting her.
Dwayne Waden, 57, showed up to his wife’s workplace at a McDonald’s restaurant in High Point, North Carolina, and tried to push the cook’s head into the fryer and also punched him in the face, according to a police report obtained by CBS News.
Witnesses said that Waden walked around the counter at the fast food joint and put his hands on the cook’s neck.
Multiple workers pulled Waden away from the cook.
The victim ‘suffered a large contusion to the forehead and right eye, along with scratches on his neck’, states the report.
Emergency responders arrived at the scene but the victim had his family take him to a nearby hospital instead.
Cops watched surveillance footage of the fight that happened on Thursday.
Waden was arrested and charged with assault and battery, the police report states. He was released on a $1,000 bond.
His Facebook page states that he is a pastor at Elevated Life International Ministries and also works as a semitruck driver.
The McDonald’s franchise at S Main Street told CBS News that the pastor’s wife is no longer employed with them.
‘The safety and security of our employees and customers is our top priority,’ a spokesperson for the franchise said.
Waden is expected to appear in court on January 22.
The crime happened just over a week after McDonald’s made headlines after a couple reported finding a crack pick in their drive-thru breakfast order from a restaurant in southwest Columbus, Ohio. The customer brought the paper bag back to a manager at the franchise so an item similar to it would not ‘end up in a Happy Meal’, but refused a refund.
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