The owners of Dee’s Diner have released a statement after two employees were arrested on drug trafficking charges. The owners provided some details of what happened and said they are doing everything they can to rectify the situation. Sheriff Brad Youngman also noted the owners were not involved in the attempted smuggling operation and were instrumental in a quick investigation.
Friday morning, the Daviess County Sheriff’s Office announced employees at Dee’s Diner and inmates at the Daviess County Detention Center had been coordinating to smuggle drugs into the jail. The operation was uncovered Wednesday and six people are facing charges.
“The owners of Dee’s Diner were very cooperative in this investigation and their efforts to assist detectives was instrumental in getting the investigation resolved as quickly as it was,” Youngman said in a release.
Just after 5 p.m. Friday, the owners of Dee’s Diner made the following post on Facebook:
We feel betrayed, heartbroken, & honestly humiliated after seeing some of the assumptions made on social media about Dee’s today. Why would anyone think their own family could do something like this?
We were totally unaware of this operation until the detectives arrived to our diner on Tuesday, August 15th, and informed us of the situation. Unfortunately, two of the suspects were on our staff. From our understanding, our food was tampered with at some point between packaging & placing the container in the bag for pick up. After reviewing the Point of Service system, it was revealed that our cashier did not take the order on our business phone line but that a server took the order on her personal cell phone and placed the pick up order into our POS system on her own, and the kitchen prepared the food following normal procedure. The additional details were provided to the detective, and under the direction of DCSO, we remained quiet while they could complete their end of the investigation. Detectives returned to question the involved staff members on Thursday, August 17th, which inevitably led to their arrest.
IN NO WAY does Dee’s condone these types of activities. Family or not, that behavior will not be tolerated and the 2 participants are no longer employed by Dee’s.
We are trying to run a business, provide for our families, and bring good food to our community. Like a lot of you, we are just trying to get by while doing the right thing. We hope you can understand that we did everything we could on our end to rectify the situation but we still have a long road ahead of us. Please keep us in your thoughts & prayers as we try to recover from this tremendous heartbreak.
