A Chuck E. Cheese pet was arrested in Florida after a client took him out as an alleged thief, police said.
A worker dressed in a disguise of Chuck E. Cheese in one of the franchises of the pizza chain for children in Tallahassee, Florida, was arrested Wednesday night due to theft positions and took out of the wives restaurant while the children looked, according to the police and images of the incidents that emerged in the social media.
The suspect, Jermel Jarreau Jones, from Tallahassee, 41, was dressed in a face with a Chuck E. Cheese costume when the police faced him around 7:30 pm local time in a Chuck E. Cheese in the northwest of Tallahassee, according to a arrest report of the police department of Tallahassee.
A Chuck E. Cheese pet in Tallahassee, Florida, with a costume like one in the photo here, was arrested, on July 23, 2025, at work and accused of stealing a client’s debit card, according to a police report. (Getty images)
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“I grabbed his right arm while giving the verbal instruction ‘, Chuck E, Come with me Chuck E,” wrote police officer from Tallahassee, Jarrett Cruz, in the report.
Cruz claimed that the mascot costume man initially resisted the arrest.
“Jones immediately began to tense, enclosing both arms forward in front of his chest and tried to get away from my grip of his right arm,” the officer wrote in the report. “Say the verbal commands to stop resisting, you are being arrested.”
According to the reports, Cruz and a backup officer asked the masked employee to “not make a scene,” according to the report.
The officers said “they exercised a minor physical effort by placing Jones’s arms behind the back,” according to the report.
Jones, still with a full mouse outfit, was placed in double blockage wives and left the restaurant to a marked patrol vehicle, where the police removed their chuck head E. head of large and allegedly found in their pants bags a debit card that was reported as stolen from a customer during a children’s party on June 28 in the restaurant, according to the report.
A Chuck E. Cheese pet in Tallahassee, Florida, with a costume like one in the photo here, was arrested, on July 23, 2025, at work and accused of stealing a client’s debit card, according to a police report.
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Jones was arrested for serious crimes of theft of a debit card, possession of the identification of another person without consent and for allegedly using the debit card stolen six times.
Police claimed that Jones accumulated charges on the stolen debit card, including the purchase of items in a smoke store, a meat market and a Whataburger.
Jones could not be contacted to comment. He denied stealing the card when the police asked him and said the card was in his pocket because he had just found it and was about to deliver it and find, according to the police report.
“We are aware of an incident that involves a part -time employee arrested in our Location of Tallahassee on Wednesday, July 23. We have taken the appropriate measures regarding the subject employee. The police have not contacted us on this; please communicate with the Local Police Department of Tallahassee for any question,” said a deposit of the Chuck E. Cheese company in a statement to the news of ABC.
According to the report, the victim of theft of the debit card did his own detective work to identify the culprit and helped the police establish a trap for him, according to the report.
The victim told the Police that when he began to notice the strange positions on his card, he went to a meat market where the card was used and obtained video images that captured the person who used it.
“He immediately recognized the suspect as Chuck E. Cheese employee,” according to the police report.
The victim contacted the police and met them at the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant.
An officer entered the restaurant, confirmed that Jones was there and pointed out that the suspect “looked at me with very open eyes and square his shoulders tensely,” according to the police report.
The officer briefly left the restaurant to tell the victim that Jones was working there, and the victim told the officer that he wanted to press the charges.
Cruz and another officer returned to the restaurant and interrogated an employee about the whereabouts of Jones in the business.
“I asked the employee where the gentleman was previously in the main door post, and if he was the one in the mouse demand,” according to the report. “She shook her head up and down indicating that.”
