An Everett woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that she posed as a cleaning woman while stealing from a Nassau Street apartment in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood.
Eva McDonough, 56, was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on charges of breaking and entering, entering a dwelling under false pretenses, and receiving stolen property, a court clerk said. She is slated to return to court on Feb. 28. The clerk did not immediately know her bail.
Officers were called at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday by a resident who said a woman had broken into several apartments at 1 Nassau St. The resident told police he had received a text from a neighbor that an unknown woman was in his apartment. When he went there and confronted McDonough, she told him she had been hired to clean the apartment, he said.
McDonough was found by police outside the apartment building carrying two shopping bags and a woman’s handbag. She told the officers she was trying to earn extra money cleaning, and was then arrested, police said.
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