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‘Come with me, Chuck E’: Florida police arrest mascot for credit card fraud as children look on

a person in a giant mouse head raises their arms next to a group of kids
A Chuck E Cheese in Brandon, Florida, in 2021. Photograph: Casey Brooke Lawson/AP

Florida police have arrested a Chuck E Cheese mascot for credit card fraud, telling him “Chuck E, come with me” and leading him away in handcuffs while still in his gigantic mouse head costume as horrified children looked on.

Police confirmed to the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper that they had arrested Jermell Jones, an employee of the chain of family entertainment centers, on three felonies.

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