Donnavin Travont'E Dozier

On April 7, 2025, an officer with the Inver Grove Heights Police Department was dispatched to the Pilot Travel Center located at [ADDRESS REDACTED] in Inver Grove Heights, which is within Dakota County on a report of a theft. The officer met with Pilot staff at the scene who explained that an employee Donnavin Travont’e Dozier [DOB REDACTED], hereinafter “Defendant,” had made four transactions of $500 from one of the store’s point of sale systems to his own Chime financial account. The officer reviewed Pilot’s security footage which showed Defendant using the point of sale system’s barcode scanner to scan his own cell phone before closing the point of sale system’s cash drawer without putting any money inside.

Defendant then took the receipt from the point of sale system and appeared to check it against his own phone. Defendant repeated this process four times. Pilot’s financial records show that transactions via a “Chime Stride Scan Reload” in the amount of $500 occurred on April 1, 2025, at 6:43 pm, 6:55 pm, 7:56 pm, and 8:17 pm. Defendant did not make the required cash deposit of $500 on any of these transactions. Pilot subsequently discovered further thefts committed by Defendant on April 3 and April 4, 2025. These transactions happened at 12:58 am, 3:47 am, 6:24 am, and 6:31 am on April 3, 2025, as well as 1:38 am, and 3:13 am on April 4, 2025. Again, each transaction was for $500, and each time Defendant did not make the required cash deposit of $500. The total loss to Pilot for the ten fraudulent transactions that Defendant conducted was $5,000, as well as $49.50 in service fees, for a total loss of $5,049.50.