Former Obama press aide Adam Fetcher has been charged with a financial felony after allegedly using a colleague’s stolen debit card to buy kratom from a Minneapolis smoke shop. The case has drawn attention because Fetcher had been Minneapolis’s chief communications officer and comes as the city faces wider concerns over alleged fraud.

Fetcher was dismissed in early July while police investigated reports that cash and bank cards had been taken from three municipal employees. Prosecutors allege he used one stolen card for the kratom purchase; the article does not state the outcome of the case, and the allegation remains unproven.