On December 15, 2025, NA was at Marshall’s at [ADDRESS REDACTED] North, Roseville, Ramsey County. NA received an alert from Citibank that a purchase had been made at Marshall’s using her card in the amount of $454.26 sometime between 9:10 – 9:20 PM. NA had not made the purchase and discovered she had lost her wallet. Marshall’s staff said two white women conducted the transaction using NA’s card. NA reported that additional purchases was made with her lost credit cards – one at Winner’s gas station at [ADDRESS REDACTED] North, Roseville Ramsey County in the amount of $50.51 at around 9:34 PM. NA also reported that her Target credit card had been used at the Target at [ADDRESS REDACTED] B, Roseville, Ramsey County on December 15, 2026. The same two women from Marshall’s entered Target around 9:43 PM, and they pushed a shopping cart out of the store at around 10:26 PM. A purchase in the amount of $1113.89 had been completed on NA’s Target credit card – additional transactions in the amounts of $646.30 and $626.39 were declined.
Officers showed photos of the two women to security at Target. One of the security workers recognized the women as living in an apartment in Inver Grove Heights where they used to work. Investigators were able to identify the two women. The woman who used NA’s credit cards at Marshall’s and Target was identified as JENEE MARIE PETERSON [DOB REDACTED]. On December 17, 2025, Peterson called an investigator to confess while with her probation officer. Peterson said she found a wallet at Marshall’s. She used one of the credit cards in the wallet to purchase $300-400 worth of merchandise from Marshall’s. She then went to Target and used a credit card to purchase a PlayStation and other items that totaled about $1100. Peterson said she had the receipts and merchandise at her apartment.
She said she had been in a manic state and had no recollection of the transactions. She said she dissociates when in a manic state. She only realized she had committed fraud when she woke up and found the merchandise, receipts, and wallet. Peterson later brought NA’s wallet, merchandise from both stores, and the corresponding receipts to the police department. Peterson said she used the Citibank card at Marshall’s and the Target card at Target. Peterson has a prior felony conviction for VOCSL 3 and a prior gross misdemeanor financial transaction card fraud.
