UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA: A Burger King assistant manager in South Carolina was arrested after it was claimed that she gave customers French fries that had previously been thrown in the garbage, according to police.
Jaime Christine Major, 39, was arrested on Monday, July 17 for tampering with food, a felony crime, for reportedly removing French fries out of the trash and adding them to the container before pouring freshly cooked fries on top. Reports said Union Police Department officers attended an alleged crime at the fast food restaurant on Sunday, July 9, as per Fox Carolina. When they arrived, two women were screaming, yelling, and threatening the restaurant staff. The women were both arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after refusing to settle down when asked by the police.
Who is Jaime Christine Major?
The Burger King's assistant manager in South Carolina, Jaime Christine Major, was arrested on July 17, 2023. She was accused of removing French fries from the garbage, adding them to the container where freshly cooked fries are kept, and then pouring freshly cooked fries on top. This is considered food tampering, a felony. Two days after the police's visit to the scene, Burger King's corporate office informed the authorities that Major had been dishing out fries from the garbage bin.
What sentences her charges carry in South Carolina?
The intentional contamination of a food product with the aim of endangering the customer or a private corporation is known as food tampering. Any component of the food item may be impacted, including the food item itself as well as the packaging and label. A person must knowingly put a foreign material into food or another consumer product with the purpose to injure the consumer in order to be charged with food tampering. Although licking and spitting in someone's food is sufficient to be regarded as tampering, the majority of tampering incidents involve chemicals or other dangerous ingredients.
It is illegal to purposefully tamper with a human drug product or food item with the intent to cause bodily injury to a person, according to South Carolina Code Section 16-3-75. A warrant was obtained for Major's arrest as per The State following an inquiry. She may spend up to 20 years behind bars if found guilty. Her bond was set by a court at $20,000. She was still being held at the Union County Detention Center as of Tuesday, according to The State.
