The resident said she had a friend watch her apartment, but he left for a while around 3:45 p.m. and a door was kept unlocked because he had not been given a key.
After discovering the items missing, the resident told police she saw a neighbor — identified as Amber Riddell — walking into another apartment wearing her missing pair of shoes.
When police tried to contact Riddell, a man in that apartment at first said she was not present. But then he allowed the officer to come in and search the apartment.
The officer found Riddell, 30, hiding in a bedroom closet with several items of clothing on top of her.
She refused to identify herself and another officer arrived to assist as her behavior escalated, according to the police report.
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The missing pink and black Nike Shox shoes were found on the floor. Other items, including a pink Coach bag, and Apple iPad Mini and a Compaq Presario Notebook were found behind a couch. The missing LG K20 Plus phone was found in a pile of clothes in the bedroom.
The victim identified the items as hers and Riddell was taken to the police department. She was charged with burglary and taken to the Butler County Jail.
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