Evan Donovan, one of the former workers, said when he began looking over his records to prepare his taxes, he found a W2 form claiming he earned an additional $20,000 at the restaurant after he had quit, according to WSOC-TV.
Donovan went to the police in February to report that his personal info was illegally used by someone else working at the Firebirds Wood Fired Grill in Huntersville for months after he had quit working at the place in July of last year.
This was only the first employee who had personal info stolen by an illegal migrant working at Firebirds. A woman who worked at the restaurant from January to November of 2025 said that when she went into the eatery’s employee computer system, she “observed there was a current employee using her name and Social Security number to be employed there.”