On July 20, 2025 at approximately 2030 hours, Ofc. Slater of the Rochester Police Department was flagged by an adult male, fully identified in police reports and hereinafter referred to as Victim, who stated that two females just took his vehicle. The male stated that he had just purchased the car and met with the females for a test drive of the vehicle as they were potential buyers. Victim [NAME REDACTED] stated that they sat in the rear seat of the vehicle. Victim [NAME REDACTED] was driving, one female began to call him crazy and took out her phone to record him.
He stated that at that point, he no longer wanted to sell the car to them, so he returned to Olmsted Medical Center to drop them off. He stated that they began to yell and swear in a language he didn’t understand, and got out of the back seat. He stated one of the females grabbed one of his cell phones and ran away with it. As he left the vehicle in an attempt to get his phone back, the other female jumped into the driver’s seat and drove away with the vehicle. Victim pointed out a pair of flip flops that the female lost as she ran away with his phone.
Victim [NAME REDACTED], model and license plate of the vehicle. On July 21, Victim [NAME REDACTED] informed him that he had seen the two females, and filmed them as they entered an apartment building. Slater reviewed the footage, which showed one female covering her face, while the other one ran away. On the same day, Slater was dispatched to the same apartment shown in Victim’s video footage, where a complainant identified Halimodenise Bashir Mohamed [DOB REDACTED], and requested a welfare check because Mohamed had reported that a male was following her and posted her address on TikTok.
Slater noted that the apartment was the same that victim [NAME REDACTED] had run into, and noted that Mohamed’s phone number was provided by victim. Slater attempted to make contact with Mohamed but Mohamed and her friend, defendant herein, Fartun Ali Omer [DOB REDACTED], refused to come to the door. Mohamed and Omer insisted that the conversation occur over the phone. Slater called Mohamed and spoke with her together with Omer. Slater noted that Omer and Mohamed spoke simultaneously. Slater found it difficult to determine who was speaking at any given time, but was able to determine each party’s individual actions at the time of the alleged vehicle theft.
They stated that the man who followed them lives a few housed down from a member of Omer’s family and that they recognized him from an autobody shop. They stated that they first noticed the man following them on the same day as their report, July 21, 2025. They stated that Mohamed’s address had been published in a TikTok. They provided the TikTok to Slater, as well as a photograph of the man alleged to have followed them. The photo was an image of Victim. Slater asked why the image of the man was taken from the backseat of a vehicle, and when it had been taken, to which they responded that he had picked Omer for a ride to McDonalds, and that they stopped to pick up Mohamed along the way.
