Former Obama press aide accused of stealing cash, credit cards, from Minneapolis coworkers to buy kratom

A erstwhile lawman property caput for the Obama medication was fired from his Minneapolis metropolis occupation past week aft allegedly stealing currency and recognition cards from metropolis employees to acquisition an herbal supplement utilized to dainty opioid withdrawal symptoms.

Adam Fetcher, 42, who served arsenic a communications serviceman for the metropolis for a twelvemonth earlier helium was terminated, allegedly stole from his chap metropolis employees aft returning from a work-approved, weeks-long rehabilitation program, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office has received the lawsuit from authorities and is reviewing it, a spokesperson told Fox News Digital. Fox News Digital has besides reached retired to Fetcher's lawyer and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for further comment.

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Adam Fetcher, 42, who erstwhile served arsenic a property caput successful the Obama administration, was fired from his communications occupation for the metropolis of Minneapolis aft helium allegedly stole currency and complaint cards from metropolis employees to acquisition kratom, an herbal cause utilized to dainty opioid withdrawal. (City of Minneapolis Instagram; Getty Images)

Fetcher was captured connected surveillance cameras astatine a Minneapolis fume store purchasing kratom, which is utilized to dainty opioid withdrawal symptoms but carries its ain hazard of addiction.

He allegedly stole a complaint paper from a metropolis employee's purse and made a $481 acquisition astatine the Minneapolis Tobacco & Vapor shop, little than a mile from his home, the paper reported. Store manager Hamza Zamara said unit helped investigators place Fetcher arsenic the antheral who allegedly utilized fraudulent cards to marque the purchase.

Authorities zeroed successful connected the store aft a pistillate called the store claiming that idiosyncratic had made a acquisition utilizing her paper without permission. When Fetcher visited the store again, employees took pictures of him and followed him outside, the quality study states. They aboriginal gave investigators Fetcher's vehicle’s licence sheet number.

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Former U.S. President Barack Obama smiles astatine the authoritative opening of the Obama Presidential Center connected June 19, 2026 successful Chicago, Illinois. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais-Pool/Getty Images)

"We told him, ‘Hey, we cognize what you’re doing,’" Zamara said.

Fetcher, who earned $186,000 annually, was fired connected July 1.

"Under Adam’s leadership, the Communications squad has reorganized, is afloat staffed, and is good positioned to negociate the City’s Communications needs," City Operations Officer Margaret Anderson Kelliher wrote successful an email to unit announcing the termination.

The email did not explicate the circumstances of Fetcher's departure. However, Kelliher wrote successful a abstracted memo that respective metropolis employees had reported missing cash, debit, oregon recognition cards, arsenic good arsenic unauthorized charges, noting the incidents happened betwixt mid-May and June.

A kratom leafage and a vape store sign. (Getty Images)

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"I cognize this accusation whitethorn beryllium concerning and troubling, and I privation to guarantee you that the City takes this benignant of study earnestly and has acted accordingly," she wrote, according to the email obtained by the Star Tribune. "Although we cannot supply further details, we person nary crushed astatine this clip to judge determination is immoderate ongoing hazard of theft."

In summation to serving arsenic lawman nationalist property caput for the Obama administration, Fetcher went connected to clasp elder communications roles for Patagonia, Rivian, and Lyft.