Suspected Lingerie Thief Arrested on Warrant

A Richfield woman already facing Hennepin County charges of stealing almost $1,500 worth of lingerie from Victoria’s Secret was arrested Monday on a warrant charging her with stealing clothing from Kohl’s in Burnsville.  

Monet Mecca Dunnorm, 18, remains in the Dakota County Jail on a $300 bond, but she is also being held on a $20,000 bond out of Hennepin County. She appeared Tuesday at a bail hearing in Dakota County District Court in Hastings. 

A warrant for Dunnorm’s arrest was issued by Hennepin County authorities after she failed to appear April 6 at a hearing on the Victoria’s Secret charges.

She was arrested just before 10 a.m. Monday by Ramsey County authorities.

According to the Burnsville charges, police were called to the Kohl’s store on Feb. 14 – just over a month after she was arrested at Victoria’s Secret – on a report of a shoplifting in progress.

The store’s loss prevention officer told police that Dunnorm and two other women were piling jeans and shirts into a shopping cart and making periodic trips into fitting rooms, then emerging with “noticeably less merchandise” in the cart.

The women had a large plastic Target bag in the cart that appeared to be full of merchandise, the officer told police.

During the incident, two men entered the Kohl’s store and approached Dunnorm, who walked away from the shopping cart. One of the men grabbed the Target bag and the two men left the store, setting off the security alarm; they ignored the alarm and jumped into the back seat of a car, which sped out of the parking lot, the complaint charges.

Police saw the car leaving the lot with five people inside. They stopped the car, and all five denied stealing anything from Kohl’s.

Officers asked everyone to get out of the car. When one of the men in the back seat got out, police discovered that he was sitting on the Target bag full of unpaid merchandise from Kohl’s; the stolen items were valued at $824, the complaint alleges.

Dunnorm told police that her name was Dalicia Mecca Jones. She later admitted that she lied about her name because she knew there was an active warrant for her arrest and she didn’t want to go back to jail, according to the complaint.

However, Dunnorm continued to deny stealing anything in Burnsville, claiming that she had only been shopping at Kohl’s, the complaint says.

The Dakota County charges against Dunnorm are theft, a gross misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $3,000 fine, and providing a false name to a police officer, a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.