Tyson suspends John R. Tyson as finance chief over DWI arrest

Tyson Meals has suspended its chief monetary officer, John R. Tyson, after he was arrested in Fayetteville early Thursday morning on prices of driving whereas intoxicated — his second alcohol-related offense throughout the previous two years.

Tyson, 34, is the fourth-generation scion of the household that made Tyson Meals into the meatpacking empire it’s in the present day. His father, John H. Tyson, is the Springdale-based company’s chairman. The enterprise was founded in the 1930s by John W. Tyson (John R.’s great-grandfather) then grew into one of many largest meals firms within the nation underneath his son, Don Tyson.

John R. Tyson, who beforehand labored in funding banking and personal fairness at J.P. Morgan, joined the household firm in 2019 and was elevated to CFO in 2022. In November 2022, he was charged with public intoxication and felony trespass after a lady in Fayetteville returned house to search out Tyson — a stranger to her — asleep in her mattress. (He apparently had walked by an unlocked entrance door.)

Tyson acquired off with an apology in 2022, however this time round he wasn’t so fortunate. Tyson Meals introduced his suspension Thursday, and the AP reports Curt Calaway, a senior vp on the firm, was named interim CFO in his absence.

Tyson is scheduled to look in district courtroom in Fayetteville on July 15. The New York Times has extra particulars on the latest arrest report.

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