A West Virginia woman is facing several burglary charges following a complaint about suspicious activity in Yates County over the weekend.
On February 2nd, at 10:08 a.m., the Yates County Sheriff’s Office responded to Gravel Run Road in the Town of Barrington after a report of a suspicious person approaching a residence. Deputies and New York State Police located a vehicle at the scene and identified its driver as 56-year-old Sheila E. Swarthout, formerly of Rock Stream and now residing in Ashford, West Virginia.
Authorities have linked Swarthout to a series of residential burglaries that occurred during the summer of 2024. As a result of the investigation, she has been charged with four counts of burglary in the second degree, two counts of attempted burglary, four counts of petit larceny, and one count of criminal trespass in the second degree.
Swarthout was transported to the Yates County Public Safety Building, where she was processed and held for arraignment in the county’s Centralized Arraignment Program (CAP).
The case remains under investigation, with YCSO Deputies Crofoot, Hansen, F/Sgt. Rider, Inv. Rayburn, Inv. Breuer, and Lt. Cunningham involved in the response. Additional assistance was provided by the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office and New York State Police.
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