Restaurant Worker Filmed Himself Urinating on Food — What Cops Found on His Phone Was Even Worse By Christina Coulter

Bon appétit, said no one.

Jace Hanson, a former restaurant worker in the kitchen of the upscale Hereford House steakhouse in Leawood, Kan., was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison after filming himself contaminating restaurant food with his bodily fluids, according to KCTV5, KSHB 41 and KMBC 9.

The videos — which surfaced on a social media site under the username “Vandalizer” — were reported to the FBI by a tipster, and the FBI then passed the information to Leawood police, per the outlets. The clips allegedly showed Hanson urinating on food, spitting into containers, stomping on food items and rubbing them on his body before they were served to customers, per court documents and reporting by KCTV5, KMBC 9 and The Kansas City Star.

Hanson was arrested on April 25, 2024, after the FBI forwarded its findings to local authorities, according to KCTV5, KSHB 41 and KMBC 9.

Investigators said the incidents occurred between March 26 and April 25 of that year, and Hanson later pleaded guilty on July 3, 2025, to 33 felony counts — including 22 counts of criminal threat, one count of criminal damage over $25,000 and 10 child exploitation charges — according to KSHB 41 and KMBC 9.

Leawood Police Detective Jack Bond testified that, along with footage of the contamination, detectives recovered child sexual abuse material on Hanson’s devices.

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“It was the most brutal and violent child sexual-abuse material that I have ever seen,” Bond said in court, according to the Johnson County Post, adding that he had to take breaks while reviewing the files because of how horrific the footage was.

On Oct. 9, 2025, a Johnson County judge sentenced Hanson to 11 years and 4 months in prison, the maximum allowed under Kansas law, per the outlets.

The fallout for the Hereford House was immediate: co-owner Camellia Hill testified that sales plunged “the minute it hit the press,” saying the scandal “basically destroyed our business,” per the Johnson County Post.

The restaurant closed its Leawood location on Aug. 3, 2024, citing “financial strains caused by recent events,” according to KCTV5 and the Post.

By Aug. 8, 2024, at least 13 civil lawsuits had been filed against the restaurant, according to KMBC 9, KCTV5 and The Kansas City Star.

Leawood police fielded nearly 400 food-poisoning complaints and conducted about 130 interviews, a volume that briefly crashed the department’s records system, according to the Johnson County Post, KSHB 41 and KCTV5.

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