MOUNT VERNON — A 59-year-old Mt. Vernon woman was arrested Wednesday by Mt. Vernon police for alleged residential burglary.
(Source: MVPD)
Cynthia Hamilton was taken into custody after Mt. Vernon police officers responded just before 11 ap.m. Wednesday to a residence on Evergreen Drive.
A caller had indicated that a suspicious subject had attempted to enter the residence through a back patio door and then a side door.
Officers found Hamilton, who had matched the description given of the suspicious person, in the 400 block of South 32nd Street.
She was transported to the Jefferson County jail where she awaits the formal filing of charges and the setting of bail.
Hamilton had previously been charged and pleaded guilty in 2014 to possession of burglary tools in a case in which charges of burglary and resisting a peace officer were dropped.
She was sentenced to three years in the Department of Corrections with credit for 122 days served prior to trial.
In separate cases, she was found not guilty to a charge of burglary in 2014 and a charge of theft between $500 and $10,000 in 2013.
She was found not guilty by reason of insanity for a charge of residential burglary from 2010, and charges of residential burglary and possession of burglary tools from 2010 were abandoned by the prosecution.