STUART — What began with a flap in a Taco Bell drive-thru ended with two men in lockup in a case that apparently did not require investigators to think outside the bun, according to arrest affidavits.

Martin County sheriff’s deputies on Sept. 22 went to a Taco Bell in the 3400 block of Southeast Federal Highway after a report of patrons fighting in the drive-thru.

Investigators spoke to Tyler Tyson, 19, and Owen Lardizzone, 18, who were in one vehicle, and two people in a second vehicle. They also talked to the drive-thru operator.

According to affidavits, Tyson and Lardizzone, both of Stuart, had finished their order at the drive-thru, an area that affords people an opportunity to order and receive food without exiting their vehicle.

They were asked to move forward but evidently objected.

The drive-thru operator told investigators Tyson and Lardizzone used foul language to say others in line could wait.

Tyson and a man in the second vehicle got out and had a verbal confrontation.

All were told to go their separate ways, and the two in the other vehicle took off.

But investigators determined Tyson and Lardizzone’s vehicle didn’t have the correct license plate.

Advised to walk away, Tyson and Lardizzone decided “to stay and cause a disturbance by walking around the Taco Bell parking lot being loud and cursing obscenities,” an affidavit states.

Deputies arrested them in connection with impacting the peace and quiet of the drive-thru operator.

Lardizzone also was arrested on a resisting arrest without violence charge.

It’s unclear whether they got their Taco Bell order.