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chief financial officer John R. Tyson was arrested early Sunday morning after he was found sleeping in a house that wasn’t his own.
A Fayetteville, Ark. woman arrived home and found Tyson, 32, passed out in her bed around 2 a.m., according to the arrest report shared by local news. The unidentified woman said that she did not know Tyson, and called the police to report an intruder. She told dispatchers that she may have left her front door unlocked, which could be how Tyson got inside her home.
The responding officers said that Tyson was mostly unresponsive at the scene, and that he attempted to go back to sleep after the police started speaking with him. The officers also said that they could smell alcohol on Tyson’s breath and body.
Tyson was arrested on charges of criminal trespassing and public intoxication. He was booked into the Washington County jail, and released later on Sunday.
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Tyson Foods was not immediately available for comment. But a spokesperson told local news outlets that, “We’re aware of the incident, and as this is a personal matter, we have no additional comment.”
John R. Tyson has worked for Tyson Foods since 2019. He serves as the company’s executive vice president, and was promoted to CFO in September 2022. He is also the son of the company’s chairman, John H. Tyson, and the great-grandson of the company’s founder, John W. Tyson.
Tyson isn’t the only high-level food executive to run afoul of the law in Arkansas’s Washington County this year. Beyond Meat
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COO Doug Ramsey was arrested in September for allegedly biting a man’s nose in a parking lot incident. Ramsey later left the company.
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Shares of Tyson Foods moved 0.81% lower during Monday’s trading, and are down 16.66% over the past three months.
