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Arizona Daily StarFederal agents arrested the father-son owners of 15 Chuy's Mesquite Broiler restaurants in Arizona and California on Wednesday on allegations they were knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and paying them under the table.
Mark Evenson, 58, of Paradise Valley, and his son, Christopher Evenson, 39, of Oro Valley, were arrested along with the company's accountant, Diane Strehlow, 47, of Tempe.
... The arrests are the culmination of a two-year investigation that began with an anonymous tip that Chuy's was hiring illegal immigrants, Crocker said. The Evensons hired illegal immigrants to work in the kitchens of 15 Chuy's restaurants in Arizona and California, paying them off the books to avoid paying taxes, he said.
... After receiving a complaint about illegal workers at a Lake Havasu City Chuy's in September 2010, Mark Evenson told an employee, "If we throw some American people in there, maybe that'll just shut (them) up," the indictment says. He told the employee, who he believed was an illegal immigrant, "I just need to get you off the oh, show floor. I need to hide you in the kitchen."
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