Left to right, Andrea E. Nagers, Salli Ann Barats and Matthew Greening

Prince Frederick, MD – A Calvert County woman accused of burglarizing an antique store in Port Republic and a house in St. Leonard received two indictments from a grand jury on Sept 19.

Andrea Ellen Nagers, 26 of St. Leonard, was served with a three-count indictment for a burglary that happened sometime between June 17 and 24. The second eight-count indictment includes six drug-related charges stemming from an incident at the Calvert County Detention Center during the investigating officer’s routine warrant pickup. Nagers was already in custody on suspicion of burglary of a St. Leonard house.

Two of Nagers’ alleged accomplices—identified by court documents as Salli Ann Barats, 51 of St. Leonard; and Matthew Greening, 28 of St. Leonard—were each indicted on three counts.

Discovery of the burglary at the antiques store on Parkers Creek Road was made during the morning of June 24 by the store owner. The stolen items were “valued at thousands of dollars,” stated Detective Lord in court documents. “There was an open window found as well as an unlocked rear door at the store.” Items taken during the burglary included old books, a variety of baskets, tools, toolboxes, lanterns, candle holders and several quarts of paint. Those items were “valued at thousands of dollars.” The owner told the detective investigating the case there was an open window and unlocked rear door in the store. 

Detectives began to suspect Nagers after learning she had ties to a former tenant of the building before it became a store.

On the early morning hours of July 27, deputies responded to the call of a burglary of a home on Long Beach Drive. Deputies spotted an SUV matching one last seen leaving the site of the burglary on Long Beach Drive. They soon discovered Nagers and Greening in the SUV.

According to deputies, Nagers said “She was at the residence getting belongings she believed at the time she had a right to take.” Deputies later found the stolen items in the back of the SUV. Nagers then told deputies, “The person who owned the house was deceased and the items were free to take.” 

After taking Nagers into custody, deputies also found several illegal prescription pills in her possession. 

Police discovered during a search that Greening had “various jewelry items” and “burglary tools” in his pockets.

Barats was identified as Nagers’ accomplice in the antique store burglary by a male acquaintance during a police interview. When contacted Barats confessed that “she went with Nagers to the store on two separate nights” and helped her load items into a truck, deputies said. The statement of charges reported that “numerous items” believed to be stolen from the store “were recovered inside Barat’s residence.”

Nagers was indicted for second-degree burglary, theft between $1,000 to $10,000 and theft scheme $1,000 to $10,000 in connection with the antiques store burglary. She was indicted for second-degree burglary and theft between $1,000 to $10,000, and the drug charges.

Barats was indicted on the same charges related to the store burglary. Greening was indicted for second-degree burglary, fourth-degree burglary and theft between $1,000 and $10,000.

All of the burglary and theft charges filed against the trio are felonies. All three defendants are expected to be in Calvert County Circuit Court for initial hearings Oct. 14.

Contact Marty Madden at marty.madden@thebaynet.com