— -- A mother and her son allegedly hatch a mouse trap for Cracker Barrel; three bunnies apparently wanted more than Easter eggs in their basket; and Ohio's "panty bandit" may be caught. It's a ...

Carla Patterson of Hampton vows to appeal. Sentencing for her son, Ricky, is delayed. A Hampton woman convicted in April of trying to shake down the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain two years ago by ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va – A woman and her adult son have been convicted of trying to extort money from the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain by claiming they found a dead mouse in a bowl of soup while ...

Prosecutors say Carla and Ricky Patterson tried to extort money from Cracker Barrel. The Pattersons say it’s Cracker Barrel that is perpetrating the fraud. It’s a case that revolves around fraud, ...

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A woman who claimed she found a mouse in her soup while celebrating Mother’s Day at a Cracker Barrel restaurant was accused with her son of planting the rodent and attempting to extort money from the ...

A man who tried to extort $500,000 from a Cracker Barrel restaurant by claiming he found a mouse in a bowl of soup has been sentenced to a year in jail. Ricky Lee Patterson, 23, also was fined $2,500 ...

An inmate at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex at West Liberty found a dead mouse in his soup May 1, leading to an investigation by corrections officials, according to state prison incident ...

An Oregon woman sued a food company this week, claiming it swept aside her complaints of allegedly finding what appeared to be mouse remains in a carton of soup. Maesel Dorn, 72, claims in the ...

The takeaway denied it was their food and refused a refund. A man in the UK was left horrified after he allegedly found a mouse in his Chinese takeaway soup, the Independent reported. Sam Hayward, who ...