Woman, son convicted in mouse-in-soup extortion

Sunday, April 30, 2006

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- A woman and her adult son were convicted of trying to extort money from the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain by claiming they found a dead mouse in a bowl of soup while celebrating Mother's Day in 2004.

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