North Carolina pastor arrested after police say he tried to push wife's coworker into McDonald's deep fryer
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A workplace conflict allegedly ended in assault and the arrest of a High Point, North Carolina, pastor, according to police records.
A manager-in-training at a McDonald's complained to her husband on Thursday that employees were disrespecting her, according to a police report, and he came to his wife's workplace. There, 57-year-old Dwayne Waden allegedly pushed a cook's head toward the deep fryer and punched him in the face, according to a police report of the incident.
Several employees had to pull Waden off the victim, according to the report, who "suffered a large contusion to the forehead and right eye, along with scratches on his neck."
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