You can agonize over what to have at a restaurant only to learn that your final choice is unavailable. And then occasionally a dish comes out that’s not even on the menu.
Certainly, some diners will be crestfallen after a cook at a Tennessee Waffle House was busted for dishing up an extra-special side exclusively for folks in the know.
Anthony James Silcox, 31, was arrested Friday afternoon for allegedly selling methamphetamine at his workplace, a branch of the restaurant chain in Caryville, 30 miles northwest of Knoxville.
The culinary maestro was taken into custody while “standing at the grill” as cops with a search warrant raided the eatery, according to a complaint affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun.
(Campbell County Sheriff’s Office)
The arrest followed an investigation triggered by a “citizen’s complaint,” according to a statement from the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office cited by local station WVLT.
A search of Silcox yielded seasonings not typically conducive to healthy appetites – 3.3 grams of a “crystal-like substance” thought to be meth, as well as drug paraphernalia, the complaint affidavit states.
When interviewed by investigators, Silcox reportedly admitted to selling meth from the Waffle House “in the past” but said he “does not sell methamphetamine everyday.”
He also allegedly explained that he was just “trying to make a living,” telling cops he currently had to sleep in his Ford F-150 truck or stay at “random motels.”
Silcox was booked into the Campbell County Jail on charges of sale and delivery of meth and possession of drug paraphernalia.
He is scheduled to appear in court on December 9.