BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A Bloomington woman was charged with a theft string spanning over six months after police said she stole a debit card at a funeral and used the funds on it at a nearby Build-A-Bear. According to court documents, 38-year-old Amy Michelle Dowden made a $72.76 purchase at the Build-A-Bear in the Bloomington College Mall. Dowden provided a checkout employee with her name and email address so she could use a rewards card, which police used to track her down, alongside the clerk identifying Dowden from a series of 10 photos. Booking photo of Amy Dowden (Monroe County Jail). The credit card was stolen during a service at Funeral Chapel. Court docs indicate that a woman sat by a female in her 30s, who told the woman her last name was Dowden and that her mother knew the person who had passed. Court documents wrote that the woman sat her purse down near her chair. Later, the woman's sister came up to her, asking if she had forgotten anything. That woman checked her wallet and found that she was missing around $70 in cash, her debit card, two credit cards to retail stores and one of her family member's debit cards that she was holding at the time. When the woman called to cancel her cards, court documents said the bank told her the relative's debit card had already been used at the College Mall Build-A-Bear. However, this was not the first time Dowden had committed theft. According to court documents, she had: Used an elderly woman's credit card to make a purchase to Duke Energy, as well as write a check to herself, in April Made purchases at Domino's Pizza and DoorDash from a stolen credit card in June Stole a man's debit card on a Bloomington Transit bus, using it for purchases at Harbor Freight and DoorDash Made purchases from a stolen debit card at locations such as Hardee's, Amazon, Harbor Freight, Kroger and Walmart in September. Later, Dowden reportedly gave the wallet to a neighbor of the person she stole from, who returned it to that person. Stole a wallet from a person at the Monroe County Public Library in September, which she used to make purchases at a nearby Kroger. On Sept. 19, Dowden petitioned for the expungement and sealing of her records via a Monroe County Circuit Court. The court objected to this on Oct. 24 due to Dowden's pending criminal cases (in which she is charged with Theft, a Level 6 Felony, and Fraud, a Class A Misdemeanor), as well as multiple errors on her petition. Dowden is currently being held at the Monroe County Jail.