Mathis was arrested following the dramatic escalation of what neighbors are calling ‘the lemonade wars,’ a weeks-long feud between two families operating competing children’s lemonade stands on the same Fort Worth street — stands nominally run by kids but, witnesses say, ‘clearly run by the dads.’ The Mathis stand undercut the rival’s prices; the rival retaliated with ‘free cookies with purchase’; the Mathis stand escalated to ‘free cookies AND a sticker.’ A price war drove a cup of lemonade down to four cents. The conflict turned criminal when the rival family’s sign reading ‘BEST LEMONADE ON THE BLOCK’ was defaced overnight to read ‘2ND BEST LEMONADE ON THE BLOCK,’ and physical when Mathis attempted to relocate the rival stand’s folding table ‘to a less competitive corner.’ Per the officer: ‘These are grown men. The children stopped caring about the lemonade two weeks ago. The kids are friends. It’s the fathers.’ The children of both families have since merged their stands into a single venture and are ‘doing great, actually.’