Posted on 10/17/2025 8:30:30 AM PDT by V_TWIN
BUNNELL, Fla. — A second suspect in an alleged fraud scheme at a Palm Coast Popeyes has been arrested following a seven-month investigation, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
Shaunta Johnson, 42, was taken into custody Wednesday by Flagler detectives on charges related to an organized scheme to defraud customers, a sheriff’s office news release states.
Johnson is accused of charging customers’ credit cards while working in the restaurant’s drive-thru, the news release states. She allegedly orchestrated the scheme to make commissary payments to her boyfriend, an inmate at Apalachee Correctional Institution.
Johnson remain in jail Friday morning on no bond.
Chaniqua Richberg, 48, was accused of similar charges in April. Detectives said on March 20 a victim reported witnessing Richberg tapping her credit card twice: once for her drive-thru order then again to a cell phone, the news release states. Later that day, the victim found an unauthorized charge of $311.90 on her account and reported it to law enforcement, the news release states.
During their investigation, detectives determined the fraudulent transaction was for a commissary payment to an inmate at Apalachee Correctional Institution.
Richberg was released on $7,500 bond.
“Our detectives worked diligently to identify and arrest those responsible for defrauding unsuspecting Popeyes customers,” Sheriff Rick Staly, stated in the news release.
Criminal masterminds, these. It’s unbelievable they got caught executing such a flawless scheme
Luh Dat Chiggin
Learned years ago to never hand a credit/debit card to anyone at a drive-thru, or to watch a waiter walk away with it. Always have cash for these transactions.
Ah, someone who knows Duval 🙂
Beach Road Chicken was 2nd to none back in the day....but in it’s last few years it went down hill bad.
The creamed peas were spectacular.....and I don’t even like peas! Lol!
The restaurant model has changed a bit nowadays.....closest thing to home cooking around here now is Metro diner.
I’d do anything for love but I won’t do that.
No, they arent't (sp). At the Popeye's in my Texas neighborhood all the employees are Hispanic. They even have novellas on the tv while they work. The chicken is just as good and spicy.
Henderson’s Chicken in south Dallas was the best I’ve ever had. I think they deliberately didn’t change the frying grease for weeks so the chicken came out darker and crispier. Harold’s Chicken in Chicago was a close second.
The last couple of times I ate at KFC, I got diarrhea. I have avoided it since.
Dirty rice fatigue.
....LOL.....you beat me to the keyboard...!!do I have to look...?? do I...!! DO I...!!!!!!????
No, it was Bluto and Olive.
Definitely not Swee’Pea and Eugene the Jeep.
Maybe the Sea Hag and the Goon.
You can’t even make this stuff up.
By golly, I think there are a least of us who have been seriously damaged.
MORE UPSTANDING CITIZENS???
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