On August 27, 2025, the Lakeville Police Department received a report of fraud at a bank in Lakeville, Dakota County, Minnesota. The regional manager reported that a male had used a fake ID to fraudulently obtain a cashier’s check worth $61,950.43 and $8,600.00 in cash on August 14, 2025. An investigator was assigned to follow up on the fraud report. The investigator obtained surveillance video and check records from the bank. The investigator learned that the suspect had entered the bank with an invoice for a vehicle.
The suspect then told the bank teller that he needed a cashier’s check to pay for the vehicle. The suspect requested money from “his” home equity line. After reviewing the information, the check was issued to the suspect. The check was deposited at a bank in Mamaroneck, New York, on August 15, 2025. A crime alert was created using still images from the surveillance footage. A detective from the Woodbury Police Department identified the suspect as MICHAEL JOHN LOGAN [DOB REDACTED]. LOGAN was previously identified as a suspect in a similar fraud scheme in Woodbury, Minnesota.
The investigator also learned that LOGAN had been arrested in Apple Valley on August 22, 2025, while perpetrating a similar fraud scheme where he used fake IDs to obtain cash and checks from home equity lines.
