On April 19, 2025, Buffalo Police officers responded to the Dairy Queen store located at 609 Highway 55 East in Buffalo, Wright County, Minnesota for a fraud report. Upon arrival, Officer Haskins spoke with Dairy Queen manager SAK. SAK said that around 1:00 P.M., a man later identified as TMA tried to purchase a $32.99 cake and a $6.00 blizzard. TWA presented a screen shot of a QR code from the Dairy Queen mobile app on his phone. A few minutes after SAK scanned the QR code, a woman from Michigan called the store.
She said she received an email saying her Dairy Queen rewards points were being used at the Dairy Queen in Buffalo, Minnesota and that her account must have been compromised. Officer Nelson spoke with the woman from Michigan, who was identified as MMP. MMP received an email saying she ordered from her Dairy Queen account. She said someone used her rewards points without her permission to order a cupcake and a banana split at 1:32 P.M. For $12.00, and a $32.99 cake at 2:04 P.M. She later clarified that the $12.00 order was charged on her credit card, not on her rewards points.
MMP denied knowing anyone in Minnesota or anyone named JJ. Officer Nelson viewed a screen shot of the Dairy Queen order confirmation, which listed an order number, the location of the Dairy Queen as the one in Buffalo, Minnesota, the customer name as “[MMP’s first and last name],” an email of “[MMP’s firstname]11_hotmail.com,” the items purchased as a $5.59 banana split and a $5.59 cupcake, and the payment method as a Mastercard credit card ending 6844. Officer Haskins spoke with TWA on-scene, who said his friend “JJ” told TWA that TWA could come to this Dairy Queen and “JJ” would pay for the food.
TWA said he met “JJ” at a party a few weeks ago, “JJ” lives in the Cities, and TWA does not know anything else about “JJ.” TWA indicated TWA works at a company called JHP (aka Job’s House of Prosperity). When Officer Nelson later spoke with TWA on-scene, TWA denied knowing how his friend got the rewards points. TWA said he had called his friend “JJ” and told “JJ” he wanted food. He provided a phone number of [PHONE REDACTED] for “JJ.” When Officer Nelson called that phone number, he learned that service was restricted.
In Mirandized statements, TWA said he works at JHP. TWA admitted the person that ordered the food, “JJ,” was using someone else’s credit card. TWA does not know MMP. TWA admitted that “JJ” was ordering food for TWA, and that “JJ” wanted TWA to pick it up. TWA denied paying for the food. TWA acknowledged that “JJ” is not the person’s real name. TWA said he reached out to “JJ” via Instagram. TWA said he got the screen shots of the QR code from “JJ’s” Instagram conversation thread, which have now been deleted in the thread.
TWA said “JJ” provided him with MMP’s first name, and “JJ” told him to tell Dairy Queen that TWA was there to pick up for “[MMP’s first name].” TWA allowed Officer Nelson to look at portions of his phone. Officer Nelson learned that the Instagram handle associated with JJ is jj_.57666. Officer Nelson learned that at 2:15 P.M. TWA turned on the disappearing messages function. Officer Nelson saw that “Hussein” was a name in TWA’s call log. Officer Nelson noticed that although a Dairy Queen app was installed on TWA’s phone, there was no Dairy Queen account linked or registered to TWA. When the Dairy Queen app opened, the address that populated was the 609 Highway 55 E address in Buffalo.
