Kansas Man Sentenced to 11 Years for Contaminating Steakhouse Food With Urine and Bodily Fluids
LEAWOOD, KANSAS – A 22-year-old Kansas man will spend more than a decade in prison after admitting to contaminating food at a popular steakhouse with urine and bodily fluids, recording the acts, and sharing the videos online.
Graphic Videos Led to Investigation
According to prosecutors, Jace Christian Hanson, a former employee of Hereford House in Leawood, was sentenced Thursday to 136 months — just over 11 years — in state prison by Johnson County Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan.
Hanson pleaded guilty in July to 33 criminal charges, including 22 counts of criminal threat, 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a child, and one count of criminal damage to property.
Investigators said the case began when the FBI received a tip that a man using the online alias “Vandalizer” was posting videos of himself urinating on restaurant food and rubbing it on his genitals, feet, and backside while on the job.
“He relieved himself in au jus sauce and pickle jars, and pressed his privates to pieces of salmon,” prosecutors said in court filings.
Hanson reportedly estimated he contaminated food “around 20 times” while employed at the restaurant.
Disturbing Discovery of Child Exploitation Material
During the investigation, authorities also uncovered child sexual abuse videos and disturbing online messages in which Hanson described wanting to “do as much damage as I can someday.”
Leawood Police Detective Jack Bond testified earlier this year that the evidence included “the most brutal and violent” child abuse material he had ever seen.
“To use the term repulsive doesn’t begin to cover it,” Judge Ryan said during sentencing. “You will come back out to the community someday — and that’s concerning.”
The judge reportedly waved a binder filled with case evidence in the air to underscore the severity and depravity of Hanson’s conduct.
Restaurant Closes Following Scandal
The Leawood Hereford House, a woman-owned restaurant that had served the Kansas City metro since 1957, closed permanently after Hanson’s arrest due to multiple lawsuits and the public fallout.
“He singlehandedly caused that location to close,” Assistant District Attorney Xavier Andrews said.
Hanson apologized in court, telling the judge he wished he could undo the harm.
“I would take it all back if I could,” he said, expressing remorse to the restaurant’s staff, patrons, and his own family.
Hanson is currently being held in Johnson County custody and will be transferred to Kansas state prison to begin serving his sentence.
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