John R. Tyson, cCFO Springdale-based Tyson Foods was arrested Sunday morning (Nov. 6) in Fayetteville on charges of public intoxication and misdemeanor trespass.
According to a preliminary arrest report obtained by Talk Business & Politics Content Partners KNWA/Fox 24 NewsTyson, 32, was arrested by Fayetteville police on Sunday morning after being drunk and falling asleep at a house near Dixon Street in downtown Fayetteville.
According to the arrest report, around 2:05 a.m. on Sunday, November 11. On the 6th, Tyson was found sleeping in a woman’s bed at her home at 445 North Mock Street. The woman called police when she arrived and found Tyson, who she didn’t know.
She told the dispatcher she believed the front door was unlocked and that was how he got in. Upon arrival, police found Tyson in the back bedroom, with his clothes on the bed, and identified him by his driver’s license.
Police reportedly tried to wake Tyson and talk to him, but he was unable to respond verbally. After sitting up briefly, Tyson lay down and tried to fall asleep.
His breath and body smelled of alcohol, and his movements appeared sluggish and uncoordinated, the report said.
Photos of Tyson’s arrest no longer appear on the Washington County Detention Reports website after it was first posted.
Tyson Recently promoted to Chief Financial Officer Stewart Glendinning is leaving to run the meat giant’s prepared foods business as executive vice president. The 32-year-old fourth-generation Tyson executive received mixed reviews from Wall Street analysts despite his formal education and previous work in finance before joining the company full-time as chief sustainability officer in 2019. result.
Tyson is much younger than the average CFO age of the top 1,000 US companies (54)
Nicole Cooper, dean and professor of business administration at the University of Maryland, pointed out in Tyson’s promotion that even if executives have adequate education, inexperience can be a slippery slope. She said there is no substitute for experience.
Overall, she said, when family members are also executives in public companies, there is a risk of blind spots and jeopardizing shareholder transparency.
Also a member of the Board of Directors and Foreign Relations Committee of Winrock International
Tyson Foods did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the arrest.