Three women are accused of using a credit card from a purse stolen out of a car at Rice Creek Regional Park in Shoreview to shop at stores in Maplewood and North Saint Paul, according to criminal complaints.
Andrea Marie Bailey, 41, of Saint Paul, is charged in Ramsey County District Court with aiding and abetting felony financial transaction card fraud and identity theft, plus felony receiving stolen property. Latrice Yvonne Hillman, 35, of Saint Paul, is charged with aiding and abetting felony financial transaction card fraud and identity theft. Dominique Marie Wegleitner, 40, of Shakopee, faces the same two charges. The complaints were filed Nov. 2. When the complaints were filed, a judge ordered each woman detained with bail set at $10,000.
According to the complaints, a Ramsey County deputy responded at about 6:12 p.m. Sept. 27 to a report of a theft from a car at the park. The woman who owned the car said her bank had texted her at about 5:37 p.m. asking her to approve a $683.57 purchase at a Target store in North Saint Paul. She declined it. She then learned her card had been used for a $198.32 purchase at Home Depot in Maplewood and a $223.60 purchase at Goodwill in Maplewood.
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She checked her car and found her Louis Vuitton purse, valued at about $400, had been taken while she was taking photos in the park. It held the credit card, her driver’s license and $80 in cash. A camera lens valued at about $1,319 and a lens adapter valued at about $149.99 were also taken from the car, the complaints say.
Investigators said Bailey, accompanied by Hillman, pawned the lens and adapter at Excel Pawn in Maplewood at about 2 p.m. that day. Store video showed Wegleitner making the Home Depot purchase at about 4:28 p.m. All three women walked into the Goodwill at about 4:50 p.m. and picked out merchandise before Hillman paid with the card. At about 5:29 p.m., Wegleitner tried and failed to use the card for the $683.57 Target purchase, according to the complaints.
The women were identified in part through tattoos visible on store video and through responses from metro detectives to an alert sent out by the investigator, the complaints say. The complaints say all three have prior convictions.
