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Former YMCA SAC Employee Charged with Credit-Card Fraud
Bonnie Ann O'Keefe of Prior Lake is accused of taking her co-workers' credit cards last year and using them at retailers in the area.
A Prior Lake woman who worked last year at an elementary school in Eagan has been charged with credit-card fraud after authorities say she stole cards from her co-workers’ wallets and used them at stores in the metro area.
Bonnie Ann O’Keefe, 22, is charged with felony credit-card fraud, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
According to the criminal complaint, O’Keefe worked last year for the YMCA’s School Age Children (SAC) program at Deerwood Elementary School in Eagan.
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Eagan police received a complaint last August that someone had stolen a credit card from another SAC employee’s wallet and used it repeatedly at retailers in West St. Paul, the complaint says.
A subsequent investigation found that credit cards had been stolen from four other SAC employees and used at stores in Apple Valley and Eagan.
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O’Keefe racked up at least $1,000 in fraudulent credit-card charges between August and October 2010, according to the complaint.
Police used surveillance video from one of the stores to identify O’Keefe as a suspect. When officers interviewed her, she admitted taking her co-workers’ credit cards and using them, according to the complaint.
O’Keefe is scheduled to make a first appearance on the charge Aug. 1 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings.
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