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.
Shaunta and Chaniqua
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Also, Palm Coast is located between St. Augustine and Daytona.
Chicken ping!
It’s THEM again, Boo-Boo!
Will they still get the red beans and rice in the slammer?
We don’t eat at Popeyes or KFC any more. We have a local restaurant that serves awesome chicken dinners where the chicken doesn’t look like it starved to death!.............
It’s amazing what women will do, just for “love”.
“Shaunta & Chaniqua” — sounds like a 60’s folk-rock group, kind of like Simon & Garfunkel, doesn’t it?
Richberg was released on $7,500 bond. “Our detectives worked diligently to identify and arrest those responsible for defrauding unsuspecting Popeyes customers” said Sheriff Rick Staly.
Sheriff Staly went on to say “That GD judge undid all of our excellent work and let the bitch go.”
Or, at least that’s what he SHOULD have said.
When I read the names, I suspected as such.
And arent’t all Popeyes employees a certain ethnicity?.....going in the one closest to me is like going into the ‘hood.....and the other location is in the food park at the local mall......last time there was a real 3rd world experience......nobody and I mean NOBODY behind the counter spoke English.....or wouldn’t anyway.
Just because she bonded out doesn’t mean she’s free and clear....Palm Coast is predominantly White folks, so if it’s a jury trial I doubt it’ll be a bunch of her “homies”.....we almost moved there ourselves in 2020.....a move I’ve regretted not making since.
Shaunta and Chaniqua and Popeyes = no need for an investigation from Yogi. This is open and shut.
People like this rarely have just one scam going.....there’s no telling what else they had going.
There’s an outlet mall right up the road from Palm Coast on I-95 that has been plagued by large scale snatch and grab theft for a while now.....it wouldn’t surprise me if these had been involved at some point...or at least know some of those involved.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau: This Popeye matter is sol-ved. Who are you?
Yuri: I am Yuri, the trainer.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau: And what is it you do here, Yuri, the trainer?
Yuri: I train.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau: So you are Yuri, the trainer who trains.”
They left out Fellatia, Felonisha and Chlamydia
“open and shut”.....indeed
At least, they are in Florida where they’ll probably go to jail. If they were in one of corrupt DemocRAT run states (as if there was a non-corrupt DemocRAt state), the perps would run for office and get elected).
If charging a customer’s credit card for something other than food is a crime, Popeye’s has big problems.
Well, I feel sorry for you if you ever even did.
I think the writer and/or editor may be of the tribe.
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