The chief financial officer of $19 billion Tyson Foods has been suspended from work hours after local police in Arkansas arrested the executive for allegedly driving while intoxicated.
According to police records, John R. Tyson was booked around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday. Tyson posted bond, and law enforcement released him nine hours later after charging him with driving while intoxicated, careless driving, and making an improper turn. The charges are the Tyson scion’s second-known scrape with the law. Just months after he was appointed to the CFO role in 2022, Tyson was found asleep in a stranger’s bed in her Fayetteville, Ark., home. Police said the woman resident did not know Tyson. The CFO was arrested for public intoxication and criminal trespass after the incident; he later apologized to employees in an email and said he would get counseling for his drinking.
