Jun 13, 2016 2 min read

A Claysville woman was arrested Saturday by Donegal Township police in connection with incidents reported the previous day.

Sarra Donna Ealy, 24, of 35 Poverty Point Road, is charged with two counts of theft and one count each of forgery and criminal trespass.

Donegal police were initially called about 1 p.m. Friday when an elderly Donegal woman reported her home on East Finley Drive had been entered and several items were stolen, including two blank checks on her Community Bank accounts.

Later that day, police went to the bank branch on Main Street in Claysville. An assistant bank manager told police a woman identified as Sarra Ealy had been in the bank about 11 a.m. that morning. She allegedly showed her driver’s license and cashed a check matching one of those reported missing by the Donegal woman. The check was made out to Ealy for $200 and supposedly signed by the elderly woman, who told police she never wrote a check to Ealy.

Police were called again later Friday by the Donegal woman, who told them Ealy came to the house and was allowed in to use the bathroom. After Ealy left, the elderly woman discovered that $150 was stolen from her purse, which had been in an upstairs bathroom.

Ealy was arraigned before District Judge Robert Redlinger on the charges and placed in Washington County jail on $20,000 bond. She faces a June 23 preliminary hearing before District Judge Ethan Ward. Online court records show that she also faces a hearing before Ward next month on an additional theft charge filed by state police stemming from an incident in South Franklin Township in April.