A Bonney Lake victim told police a locker was pried open and $1,500 in cash was among the missing items, court records say.
BONNEY LAKE, Wash. — Recent court documents filed in Pierce County say three men have been charged in a March 2023 string of Planet Fitness locker break-ins that investigators linked to stolen credit cards, a prepaid Visa purchase at a Puyallup Fred Meyer and cellphone data across multiple gym locations.
Prosecutors filed separate charging documents March 5 against Ahmed Abdi Ahmed, Ahmed Aden Abdi and Ismail Abdi Dahir in Pierce County Superior Court.
The filings accuse them of multiple counts of second-degree burglary, second-degree identity theft, second-degree theft and possessing stolen property.
Bench warrants for all three men were filed in March 2026, resulting in Monday’s arrest of Ahmed Aden Abdi. The two other suspects have not been located.
According to court documents, the case began when Bonney Lake police responded March 16, 2023, to a reported theft at the Planet Fitness on state Route 410.
A victim told officers he had locked his belongings in a men’s locker room locker and came back to find the lock pried off and several items missing, including a backpack, jeans with $1,500 in cash in a pocket, a baseball cap and a pair of work boots.
A Planet Fitness employee told investigators she believed the same three men had also been at the Fern Hill and Milton locations earlier that day.
Police said surveillance showed three suspects at the Bonney Lake gym, and the employee told officers two of them distracted staff with membership questions while the third went into the locker room.
Investigators said gym records tied the suspects to a Planet Fitness account with a home club in Hammond, Indiana.
According to court documents, that login was used March 16 at the Milton club at 11:47 a.m., the Fern Hill club on Pacific Avenue at 12:47 p.m., the Bonney Lake club at 1:24 p.m., another club in Kent or Auburn at 1:57 p.m. and a Renton club at 3:31 p.m.
Police also said the same group was tied to a theft at the Milton Planet Fitness.
In that case, a victim told investigators his wallet was stolen from a locker, and one of his credit cards was used to make a $255.95 purchase at a Puyallup Fred Meyer for a $250 prepaid Visa card.
Court records say two more attempts to buy prepaid cards were declined.
Investigators also used iCloud and Google records tied to one of the suspects’ phones.
Police said those records included searches for Planet Fitness locations in Pierce County and South King County and helped identify Ahmed through school records.
Court records say Abdi denied being in Bonney Lake and denied knowing Dahir or Ahmed when police contacted him.
The affidavit says Ahmed also denied involvement, and Dahir agreed to an interview but did not show up.
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