A late-night Arby’s run in Oklahoma allegedly turned into a felony poisoning case after police said a former restaurant manager was caught on surveillance video spitting into a customer’s sandwiches.
Prosecutors later charged former Broken Bow Arby’s manager Amanda Hendricks with felony poisoning with intent to injure over the March order involving Jennica Church.
Church said the case ruined a fast-food favorite. “I love Arby’s — not anymore,” she told KJRH.
Police reviewed restaurant surveillance footage and said it showed Hendricks contaminating sandwiches made for Church, according to an affidavit cited by local outlets.
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Church’s civil suit adds a more alarming claim: Hendricks was allegedly working during an active herpes outbreak, and Church later tested positive for HSV-1.
Church said the visit came after a late bartending shift, and the delay at the counter immediately felt off.
“It was taking a little bit of time,” Church told the station. “I thought they were mad at me because it was about to close.”
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She said she and Hendricks had a minor history, though nothing she considered serious.
Church said she began eating before she even left the parking lot, then carried the rest of the order home.
The remaining order was later shared with her husband and a relative receiving hospice care.
The lawsuit alleges a lip lesion appeared afterward and was followed by a positive HSV-1 test.
The case reportedly reached police after another Arby’s worker alleged that a customer’s food had been spit into.
In the footage, police said Hendricks appeared to lower her head over the sandwich ingredients before saliva dropped onto the food, according to affidavits cited by KJRH and KXII.
Hendricks was later booked on the felony poisoning charge and is being held in McCurtain County Jail, KXII reported.
Church’s lawsuit also accuses the restaurant operators of allowing Hendricks to keep working despite allegedly visible symptoms of an active outbreak.
The Oklahoma case was not the only recent fast-food nightmare to end in criminal charges.
In South Carolina, a customer’s drive-thru complaint allegedly ended with three Wendy’s workers accused of serving her trashed and spit-on food.
The Union case brought tampering charges against Aaliyah Shuntai Sanders, 23, Trinity Lashell Rice, 19, and Shadela Crystal Holley.
Fox Carolinas reported that the three arrests happened separately between June 16 and June 22.
The May 31 confrontation started with a drive-thru order problem and a refund request.
After taking the first meal back, workers offered a replacement, and the customer left with what she believed was a remade order.
A call from the restaurant allegedly came while she was still on the road, warning her that the food had come from the trash and had been spit on.
Looking at the meal, she allegedly recognized it as the original order. She then reported it to police and called the store manager.
The manager said he had questioned staff, confirmed the allegation and written up the three workers, according to the report.
A very different food stunt unfolded in Nantucket, where a woman used a tray of brownies to protest artificial turf and ended up prompting a police investigation.
On Nantucket, activist Perry allegedly turned a school committee meeting over artificial turf into an Ex-Lax brownie stunt.
Meeting video appeared to show Perry handing over the tray before disclosing the laxative ingredient.
“It’s my understanding they do have a non-detect level of Ex-Lax in them,” Perry said, according to the video. “But I figured since we’re okay with a non-detect level of PFAS, it would probably be okay.”
Her target was the planned artificial turf, which she linked to PFAS concerns and the field’s location over a water aquifer.
Committee Chair Laura Gallagher Byrne later told Officer Jill Johnson that Perry’s remark “made the majority of the Nantucket School Committee uncomfortable.”
A police report said Byrne wanted officers to follow up with Perry. She also told the Nantucket Current she was “shocked” by the stunt.
“Public comment is an opportunity to voice concerns in a manner that respects everyone in the room. It is not a place for displays that appear intended to provoke, ridicule, or diminish the dignity of the process or the people involved,” Byrne wrote in a statement shared with the outlet. “It is unfortunate that this step is necessary, but the safety of the committee, staff, and community must be taken seriously.”
Superintendent Elizabeth Hallett discarded the brownies after the meeting, before any committee member ate them.
The police review did not appear headed toward charges, according to a report obtained by the Current.
Detective Keith Mansfield checked with the Cape & Islands District Attorney’s office on June 5 about possible charges.
“It was determined that nothing of a criminal nature occurred related to this incident,” Mansfield wrote in a supplemental police report.
“It was noted that this documented incident would constitute a first complaint regarding criminal harassment and any further occurrences should be reported and documented with the police. If other such incidents should occur and be properly documented with the police department, then the possibility of criminal harassment charges could be brought forward at a later date.”
