By Vicky Wedig
Staff Writer
An initial appearance is scheduled to resume Feb. 26 for an Elkhorn woman charged with burglarizing two homes in Walworth in December and cashing more than $1,300 worth of checks stolen from one home.
Megan R. Langhoff, 23, was charged Jan. 22 in Walworth County Circuit Court with two counts of burglary of a building or dwelling and identity theft for financial gain.
According to the criminal complaint, Walworth resident Kristin Alter reported insufficient funds in her bank account and multiple checks issued to Jessica Nettesheim, whom Alter said she does not know. Police discovered eight checks stolen from Alter that were forged and cashed at the Delavan branch of Walworth State Bank and Lakefront Mobil in the Town of Delavan between Dec. 20 and Jan. 5. The checks were made out to either Nettesheim or the Mobil station and totaled $1,377, according to the complaint.
Police spoke to Nettesheim, who said Langhoff, her friend, had been using Nettesheim’s name to cash checks without her permission, according to the complaint.
Langhoff admitted burglarizing two homes in the Village of Walworth on Dec. 19 – Alter’s Ridge Road home and the home of Kathryn and Rodney Spangler on Prairie Drive. A laptop computer and rings were stolen from the Spangler’s home.
Langhoff also admitted stealing three checks from a home on Susan Court in Elkhorn and $400 from a house on or near Highway 11 in the Town of Delavan and burglarizing a house in Williams Bay.
