TROY – The Lincoln County Prosecutor’s Office charged a former employee of a Winfield-based maid service for one of possibly several thefts.

Haley Jennings, 23, faces charges of misdemeanor stealing for allegedly taking $200 from a customer’s daughter in January of this year.

According to a probable cause statement filed in the Lincoln County Associate Court, the victim stored the cash in a fake soda can inside her dresser.

The victim noticed the cash missing Jan. 18, less than a week after she had counted it.

Jennings had reportedly been inside the house Jan. 14 to clean it.

A few weeks later, a co-owner of the cleaning service, Helping Hands, made a post on Facebook stating “they were aware of an employee … responsible for recent thefts at several residences she had been dispatched to clean.”

After reading the post, which has since been removed, the victim’s mother contacted the co-owner and verified Jennings was the accused employee and she had been to her house Jan. 14.

According to the probable cause statement, when contacted by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, the co-owner reported 9-10 families had reported similar thefts linked to Jennings.

She also told the deputy Jennings no longer worked for the company.

So far, Jennings faces only the one Class A misdemeanor stealing charge. She is scheduled to appear May 20 in associate court in Lincoln County.