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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212;A Nanticoke woman accused of pocketing cash in a door-to-door doughnut sale scheme pleaded not guilty Thursday to separate charges she broke into a woman&#8217;s home and stole jewelry and pills to support a spiraling drug addiction.</p><p>During a video arraignment in Luzerne County Court Thursday before Judge Tina Polachek Gartley, Kendra Marcy Howells, 40, pleaded not guilty to felony counts of burglary and criminal trespassing and misdemeanor counts of theft and receiving stolen property.</p><p>A trial is scheduled for March, according to court documents.</p><p>Police allege Howells, of Center Street, broke into a couple&#8217;s Pine Street home in April and stole medication and over $1,400 in jewelry, which she later pawned to support what she told police was an &#8220;out of control&#8221; drug addiction, according to a criminal complaint.</p><p>Howells in September was arrested on charges of theft and receiving stolen property related to a scheme in which police said she pocketed cash from a resident who had placed an order for doughnuts in August.</p><p>Howells was allegedly pretending to sell doughnuts to benefit the Nanticoke Junior Football Association, the complaint says. Police Chief William Shultz said in September residents had continued to come forward claiming they, too, were duped by Howells.</p><p>Howells is currently held at the State Correctional Institute at Muncy.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Joe Dolinsky</p><p>jdolinsky@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Joe Dolinsky at 570-991-6110 or on Twitter @JoeDolinskyTL</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Nanticoke woman accused in door-to-door doughnut scam pleads not guilty to criminal trespass, burglary charges