John Steven Quale

On April 29, 2026, Anoka County Sheriff Deputy Bowker spoke with Nicholas He, the CFO of Triple Shift Entertainment, who was reporting a delayed theft from a former employee identified as JOHN STEVEN QUALE, [DOB REDACTED], hereinafter defendant. According to He, the defendant had been the general manager at the Andover Lanes located in Andover, Anoka County, Minnesota, but was terminated on May 15, 2025. He said while auditing the system at Andover Lanes, after defendant was terminated, He discovered the ATM machine logs showed an approximate balance of $70,000, however that ATM only holds a maximum of $20,000. He stated once a week they refill the ATM to keep the balance at $20,000 and if there is additional money in the ATM it is supposed to be taken out, logged in the POS system and then put in a depository safe located at Andover Lanes.

He said there appeared to be approximately $49,610 unaccounted for or overstated, so he looked further into the situation. Upon further review, He stated on 12 occasions between January 7, 2025 and May 7, 2025, the additional money from the ATM was not logged or put in the safe. He indicated the defendant was responsible for logging into the POS system twice, once to log the $20,000 delivered by the armored truck and a second time to log the excess amount in the ATM. He provided Deputy Bowker with a spreadsheet from their POS system which shows defendant, between January 7 and May 7, 2025, logging in money received from the armored truck deliveries.

However, He stated the defendant was not logging the excess amounts into the POS system or placing it into the depository safe. He reviewed the detailed accounting logs during that timeframe and attributed $42,015 of the missing money to the defendant. He stated, rather than logging the excess money into the POS system and putting it into the safe, defendant was taking the money.