Woman caught breaking into abandoned house in Corrales

CORRALES, N.M. (KRQE) – When police caught a woman taking items from an abandoned house in Corrales, she told them she was just working for her boss. This was news to his boss. She now faces charges for home burglary.

A neighbor of a Corrales home called 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 no one lived in the house and that a co-worker ordered her to repair the fence and take away nearby items.

The detective called Myers’ boss to verify his story. “She’s in your white work van and she’s loading an air conditioner and a few other items, and she says she’s fixing a door at your request,” Detective Colvin said in a newly released video.

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Myers’ boss confirmed that she was his employee, but that she did not have permission to be at the home. “So, I’m going to ask you once and only once, do you have permission to be here and do what you’re doing? Yes or no?” asks the detective.

“I thought I did,” Myers replies.

She changed her story to say that she and her co-worker were going to rent the house and were cleaning it. But she didn’t come in. This information was new to Myers’ boss, who showed up shortly afterward.

“She said she and this other girl were really working with you to rent this house,” the detective told the boss.

“No, this is the first time I’ve heard of that,” the boss replied.

Myers was arrested and continued to deny any wrongdoing. When the detective decided to show him some evidence.

Detective: Lift the back of your shoe. What does this name say?
Myers: Hurley.
Detective: Okay. So we understand. We agree on that.
Myers: That. Yes.

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“Okay Joleen, you said you didn’t drive past the house. We clearly passed the driveway. Why does it say Hurley in your shoe model and size here? Leading in and out outside the house? Because you came in the house, come out that way, we have to go to a police car and put you in the back,” the detective told him.

Myers has previous convictions for burglary and theft from 2011, as well as several arrests for criminal trespass and shoplifting. She faces charges of burglary, theft, etc. She is currently awaiting trial pending her next trial scheduled for July.

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