Gladys Knight's Son Arrested

JONESBORO — After the owner of a well-known restaurant chain in Atlanta was accused of stealing over $650,000 in sales and withholding sales tax, the restaurant’s business headquarters in Jonesboro was raided Tuesday.

According to Joshua Waites, a special investigator with the Georgia Department of Revenue, Gladys Knight founded Gladys Knight’s Chicken and Waffles, but handed over the business to her son, Shanga Hankerson, 39, who has been running it for at least 20 years,