On November 26, 2025, the Farmington Police Department received a delayed theft complaint. Witness reported that Victim, a resident of an assisted living facility found approximately $278.37 worth of fraudulent charges on one of her credit cards between November 12-25, 2025. Victim [NAME REDACTED] on her kitchen counter for Witness so that she could cancel the card. Witness indicated that facility employees would have been the only people with access to Victim’s apartment, but she had no indication that any employee had used the card.
Witness provided documentation showing that the transactions happened in Farmington, Apple Valley, and Empire Township in Dakota County. An investigator contacted the stores where the card was used. Surveillance video showed purchases at a gas pump with a male subject using Victim’s card as payment. The man tried to make a purchase inside that was denied and could be clearly seen on the store’s exit camera. The investigator ran the license plate and found the vehicle was registered to ABDISALAN HASSAN MOHAMUD [DOB REDACTED], Defendant herein.
Defendant’s driver’s license photo matched the man using Victim’s credit card. The investigator met with Victim, [NAME REDACTED] had not authorized the transactions and indicated she did not recognize the man after shown a screenshot from the surveillance video. The investigator showed the photo to the facility director, who recognized Defendant. The director said Defendant had been hired in October and would have had access to Victim’s apartment as part of his job duties. Defendant last worked on November 26, 2025 and he hadn’t shown up for his last scheduled shift and didn’t respond when she tried to contact him.
