On May 27, 2025, the Wright County Sheriff’s Office received a report of employee theft. The reporting party, BJN, and owner of D3 Excavating located in Albertville, Wright County, Minnesota, stated that an employee identified as Cody David Remarcik [DOB REDACTED] hereinafter defendant, had been stealing from the company. BJN stated that D3 does large excavating jobs where structures are built upon. When the company excavates the property, there is commonly an excess of black dirt in which D3 will sell to other companies.
BJN hired a company named G&M Outdoor Services to lay sod at his home. An employee from G&M, JAW, asked if G&M could get more black dirt from D3. BJN indicated he was not aware that D3 had sold any black dirt to G&M previously. JAW stated that G&M had been purchasing and receiving black dirt from D3 for the last year from an individual later identified as defendant. JAW also indicated that G&M had a tax form for defendant at their business. BJN contacted the owner of G&M, who stated G&M had purchased black dirt from D3 approximately 7-8 times in the last year and also rented heavy equipment owned by D3 through defendant.
The owner of G&M told deputies that she had met with defendant a few times when he came to collect payment and advised that since they were paying defendant so much for the dirt and equipment, they created a tax form. Deputy Bauman observed transactions between G&M and defendant where defendant received checks/cash and/or services for trade which totaled $21,967.00. BJN stated he confronted defendant regarding the purchases and defendant refused to answer any questions. On July 23, 2025, pursuant to a search warrant of defendant’s bank records, Detective Adams located the initial checks from G&M from a variety of business written directly to defendant.
The checks varied from payment for swamp mats, swamp rocks, etc. In total, defendant received $43,184.53 from April 8, 2024, to July 18, 2025. July 23, 2025, Detective Adams contacted BJN, owner of D3 and verified with him that it was not a standard business practice for any customers affiliated with D3 to have issued defendant checks for any services. BJN also stated that at no time was it a business practice for employees to accept checks and then pay D3. BJN also stated this had never occurred with defendant where he paid D3. Based on that information, Detective Adams received an additional search warrant for bank records for the entirety defendant was employed by D3. Detective Adams located two additional checks written by (3/11/23) ETP for $3,000 and (3/17/25) Delta Modular Construction LLC to defendant for $4,473.49. Detective Adams contacted the businesses associated with checks to defendant.
The businesses specifically told Detective Adams that defendant requested any checks to be written directly to him. 3 ••-CR-••-•••• Filed in District Court State of Minnesota 12/22/2025 Detective Adams made contact with defendant at his residence who stated he was employed at D3 and came across a deal on swamp mats and moved them to the AVA (D3) property. Defendant stated he gave the checks from the swamp mats to AVA. When asked about selling dirt, defendant laughed and stated there was approximately 30,000 yards of dirt at a location he had to get rid of.
