Janiyah Simone Davis

On or about October 6, 2025, Eden Prairie Police responded to Front Line Auto located in Eden Prairie, Hennepin County, Minnesota, for a potential fraudulently stolen vehicle. Upon arrival, police talked to the reporting party from Front Line Auto and learned that they had sold a vehicle to a person identified as JANIYAH SIMONE DAVIS [DOB REDACTED], Defendant herein. The vehicle sold was a 2018 Jeep Compass. The agreed upon sale price of the vehicle was $20,635.00. Defendant agreed to make deferred down payments totaling $5,000. Defendant planned to finance the remaining balance of $15,635.00. This agreement took place on September 5, 2025. On October 6, 2025, police learned that this sale on September 5, 2025, was conditional upon Defendant providing a copy of her social security number.

Defendant provided Front Line Auto with an insurance policy that was later cancelled due to non-policy. Defendant also provided a paycheck stub as part of financing. Front Line Auto contacted the employer on the paycheck stub. The employer confirmed Defendant no longer worked at the place of employment noted on the paycheck. Furthermore, police learned that the paycheck stub provided appeared to have been altered in terms of how much money Defendant actually made and the date of the paycheck stub itself.

Front Line Auto contacted Defendant two days after the purchase and informed Defendant to return the vehicle because she did not fulfill her conditional offer, which was provide a SSN for the credit application. Defendant contacted Front Line Auto two and a half weeks later and asked what would happen if she didn't return the vehicle. On October 6, 2025, Front Line Auto sent a certified civil demand letter to the address Defendant provided to them. The car was not returned. Defendant provided two separate addresses for her address in paperwork with Front Line Auto.

On November 7, 2025, police again talked to Front Line Auto who stated the demand letter was undeliverable to the address provided by Defendant. Front Line Auto provided the paperwork Defendant filled out for an application for credit from Members Cooperative Credit Union. In that paperwork, Defendant provided a SSN that was potentially false and fictious. Furthermore, again Defendant stated her employer was Home Sweet Home Healthcare. Again, at the time of the credit application, as confirmed by the employer, Defendant was not an employee at the business.

No payments have ever been made for this vehicle. Defendant is not in custody for this offense.