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Church minister ‘tried to push a cook into McDonald’s fryer’ for ‘disrespecting’ his wife
- Police said the minister was called to the North Carolina restaurant by his wife, a manager-in-training, who claimed staff were disrespecting her
- ‘The offender … placed his hands around the neck of the victim pushing his head toward the deep fryer,’ police said. Trial has been set for January 22
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Police have accused a North Carolina pastor of attacking a McDonald’s cook and trying to push him into a deep fryer.
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Dwayne Waden, 57, was arrested on Thursday and charged with assault after police were called to a McDonald’s branch on S Main Street in High Point, North Carolina.
Waden is a pastor at the Elevated Life International Ministries and works as a semi truck driver, according to his Facebook page.
He turned up at the fast-food restaurant to help his wife, Latoya Gladney, who is a manager-in-training at the branch, according to police investigation records seen by Business Insider.
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Gladney, 44, had called her husband to help handle employees who she told police were “disrespecting” her.
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