Housekeeper Facing Foreclosure Pleads Guilty To Stealing From Customers' Homes

In Northern Virginia, The Washington Post reports:

• A Fairfax County woman faced with losing her home admitted yesterday that she stole from those who allowed her into theirs. Mirian Martinez, 47, a housekeeper who worked under the company name Mirian Cleaning Services, had built a client list of families in Northern Virginia and was viewed as reliable and hardworking. But then several families started missing things: money, prescription medication, jewelry -- all gone.

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• In all, Martinez is accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars' worth of items, including a $42,000 ring from a Fairfax woman. An Arlington County detective said records at First Cash Pawn [...] in Arlington show that Martinez pawned as many as 200 items there in a little over a year.

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