Just this week, news broke out of a McDonald's employee sneaking in his mixtape into children's Happy Meals. This resulted in the Chicago teenage employee, Tyshaun Granger, losing his job at the fast food chain.
LOL! Re: McDonald's Employee Putting Mixtapes in Kid's Happy Meals pic.twitter.com/9SPl16mTDJ
— Martha Ignacio (@marthamarts) July 8, 2015
As it turns out, Huzlers.com - from which the story originated - is a parody news website. But the news isn't entirely false either. A McDonald's employee did get fired, but it wasn't for the mixtapes nor was it Tyshaun Granger.
The photo used in the Huzlers story was, in fact, not Tyshaun Granger. The mugshot photo is of Theodore Lavon Upshaw, a man in his late 20s (28 years old at the time of the arrest), as reported by GQ.
Upshaw was allegedly selling heroin both inside and outside of the McDonald's franchise he was working in back in 2014.
So this guy -- Theodore Lavon Upshaw -- was dealing Heroin at McDonald's pic.twitter.com/GKhXzw5VxA — Martha Ignacio (@marthamarts) July 8, 2015
The Huffington Post reported that Theodore Lavon Upshaw was charged with "possession of heroin, possession with intent to deliver and delivery of heroin."
The arrest came soon after a drug informant bought heroin from Theodore at the McDonald's parking lot in Murrysville, Pennsylvania - along Route 22.
Murraysville Police Sergeant Tom Kusinsky said, "He was [distributing or selling heroin from the restaurant] right there at the McDonald's. The process at which he took, I'm not sure of."
A spokesman for the Allegheny County District Attorney's Narcotics Enforcement Team named Mike Manko claims that the person who informed them of the illegal act had also bought heroin from Theodore Lavon Upshaw within the confines of the restaurant.
Before his stint in McDonald's, Upshaw had already been arrested for "possession with intent to deliver." He was serving a three-year sentence at the state correctional institution in Mercer.
After being released from the prison at an earlier time, the suspect had been living in a housing facility found in Braddock while working at McDonald's.
