(Stillwater, Okla.) — A former employee of the Merry Maids housekeeping service, who has a criminal record, has been ordered to appear in court on May 4 on charges of stealing $2,300 worth of jewelry from two elderly women in Stillwater and pawning their property.
If convicted, Becky Sue Peters, 54, of Perry, who remains in the Payne County Jail on $15,000 total bail, could receive as much as four life prison terms, since she has three prior felony convictions, court records show.
In her latest case filed earlier this month, Peters was charged with stealing two class rings and a gold medallion, with a total value of $800, from a client for whom she was providing housekeeping services and pawning the jewelry on Jan. 31 in Stillwater.
In another case that was filed in February, Peters was charged with stealing a $1,500 cocktail ring from an 86-year-old client for whom she was providing housekeeping services and pawning it on Jan. 29 in Stillwater.
According to Payne County court records, Peters was convicted in 2013 of three counts of second-degree forgery in Stillwater, for which she was initially placed on seven years’ probation, except 120 days in jail, with an order to pay $4,533 restitution.
Peters was also convicted in 2013 of committing a pattern of criminal offenses in Stillwater by making fraudulent ATM withdrawals on a Perry man’s card, for which she was also initially placed on seven years’ probation, except 120 days in jail, with an order to pay $2,596 restitution in that case.
Peters was also convicted in 2013 of second-degree forgery in Stillwater for passing a $2,000 check in Stillwater that had been stolen from a resident’s rom at the Renaissance Assisted Living Center, where she had previously worked, for which she was also initially placed on seven years’ probation, except 120 days in jail, with an order to pay $2,000 restitution.
In all three of her prior felony convictions, Peters was found eight months later to have violated her probation, for which she was ordered to spend 180 days in jail, with credit for time served.
She had been released from jail in mid-December, about six weeks before the latest allegations on which she now is in custody, court records show.
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