On October 29, 2025, an officer with the Maplewood Police Department responded to a report of theft and fraudulent credit card use. J. O. G., "Victim" herein, reported that her wallet was stolen from the employee breakroom at her place of employment on 10/28/25. Victim reported that the break room is locked and a code is needed to enter. The wallet contained a debit card, among other items. Victim reported that fraudulent charges were made to her card later that day, including $182.78 at an Applebee's located at [ADDRESS REDACTED] NE, city of Blaine, county of Anoka, $78.05 with Comcast Xfinity, $235.09 to a DoorDash order from Aldi's, $84.67 to a DoorDash order from Walgreens, $30 to an online Starbucks order, and $65 to an online Starbucks order.
The total amount of fraudulent charges was $675.59. Law enforcement contacted Applebee's and learned that the order in question was picked up by a black Ford SUV and was called in from phone number [PHONE REDACTED]. Law enforcement learned that the phone number used to place the order was a Text Now number and submitted a subpoena to Text Now for subscriber information. Text Now provided 2 IP addresses associated that day with the Text Now number. Law enforcement received records from Comcast regarding the IP addresses and learned they registered to a Jonathan Ballard with an address in Blaine.
Records showed that YAQARA BALLARD, formerly YAQARA SIMON [DOB REDACTED], "Defendant" herein, had the same registered address in DVS. Law enforcement subpoenaed DoorDash for information regarding the fraudulent purchases and deliveries from Aldi's and Walgreen's. DoorDash advised that the two deliveries were sent to Defendant's address in Blaine from an account with Subscriber Names of Miss B, Miss Yaqara and Yaqara Simon and registered phone numbers including [PHONE REDACTED], which is the phone number on file at Defendant's place of employment.
Law enforcement spoke with Victim and asked if she knew anyone working with her with the last name of Ballard. Victim [NAME REDACTED] was training as a front desk receptionist the day her property was stolen and that she was still employed there. Law enforcement spoke with human resources at Victim's place of employment, and made arrangements to speak with Defendant, however Defendant did not show up at work that day. Defendant was subsequently terminated from employment. Defendant is currently under court jurisdiction following a conviction for Financial Transaction Card Fraud on April 1, 2025, in court file no. ••-CR-••-••••. The complaint in that case states that Defendant used a stolen credit card from a fellow employee to make fraudulent credit card charges.
