CORRALES, N.M. (KRQE) – When police caught a woman taking items from an abandoned home in Corrales, she told them she was just doing work for her boss. This was news to her boss. She’s now facing charges for home burglary.
A neighbor at a home in Corrales called the police about a strange woman loading items into a white van. When Detective John Colvin arrived, he found Joleen Myers. She told the detective that nobody lived in the home and a co-worker ordered her to fix the fence and take the items near the fence.
The detective called Myers’s boss to verify her story. “she’s in your white work van and she’s loading up an air conditioner and some other items, and she says she’s fixing a gate at you guy’s request,” Detective Colvin says in newly-released video.
Myers’s boss confirmed she was his employee but she did not have permission to be at the house. “So, I’m going to ask you one time and one time only, do you have permission to be here and doing what you’re doing? Yes or no?” the detective asks.
“I thought I did,” Myers responds.
She changed her story saying she and her co-worker were going to rent the house and were cleaning it up. But she didn’t go inside. This information was new to Myers’s boss, who showed up after a short while.
“She said that her and that other girl were working a real out with you guys to rent this house,” the detective told the boss.
“Nope, that’s the first I’ve heard of that,” the boss responded.
Myers’s was arrested and continued to deny any wrongdoing. When the detective decided to show her some evidence.
Detective: Lift the back of your shoe up. What does that name say?
Myers: Hurley.
Detective: Okay. So we understand. We agree on that.
Myers: That. Yes.
“Okay Joleen, you say you didn’t go past the house. We are clearly past the entrance. Why does it say Hurley in your shoe pattern and your shoe size right there? Leading into the house and out of the house? Because you went into the house. Go out that way, we gotta go to a police car and put you in the back of one,” the detective tells her.
Myers has two prior convictions for burglary and larceny from 2011 as well as multiple arrests for criminal trespassing and shoplifting. She’s facing charges of burglary, larceny, and more. She’s currently out on pretrial services while awaiting her next day in court scheduled in July.
