M., officers received a past-action theft report from W. E. G., stating that his iPad had been stolen from an airplane at Terminal 2 of the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport, located within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Airports Commission, Hennepin County, Minnesota. W. E. G. Explained that he had left the iPad in the seat back of his flight on July 1, 2025, and that he filed a report with the airline the following morning. W. E. G. Further stated that the iPad continued to ping its location at Terminal 2 for the next 2 days and then stopped pinging until August 17, 2025, when the iPad began pinging its location at [ADDRESS REDACTED], in Burnsville, Minnesota.
W. E. G. Then changed the lock screen to his iPad to state that a $100 reward would be offered to anyone who could return the iPad. Soon after, W. E. G. Received multiple calls and text messages from the same phone number, claiming to have bought the iPad from a female friend who works for the airlines. Officers searched the phone number that contacted W. E. G. And found that it traced back to the same Burnsville address at which the iPad’s location had been pinging. THERESA NGUYEN [DOB REDACTED], the defendant herein, was one of the names associated with the address.
Officers conducted a social media search on the defendant, and cross referenced her friends list with airline employees, locating one match, Joanna Asuncion Pacis, the co-defendant herein, who had a history of theft. The General Manager overseeing the airline’s employees confirmed that the co-defendant had access to the room in which lost and found items were stored. When asked about the iPad during a call with her brother, the defendant stated that she was about to drop off the iPad at the airport later that evening.
CCTV footage shows the defendant arrived at the airport in the passenger seat of a black Pontiac driven by someone matching the appearance of the co-defendant. The registered owner of the Pontiac confirmed that he had recently sold the vehicle to the co-defendant. Upon returning the iPad, defendant told officers that she bought the iPad on Snapchat from an individual with the username alexis20232087 on August 17, 2025 for $100, which contradicted her text message to W. E. G., stating that she had received the iPad from a friend at the airline.
The Defendant originally denied knowing the co-defendant, but later admitted that she had been with the co- defendant before coming to the airport. Officers obtained search warrant for the Snapchat account for the username alexis20232087, which showed that no posts were made between July 1 and August 17, 2025, suggesting that the defendant was not honest with law enforcement about how she got the iPad.
