Cleaning Fairy Taken Into Custody for Tidying Up Without Permission (VIDEO)

A "cleaning fairy" has been arrested in Ohio for allegedly cleaning other people's homes without their permission.

Susan Warren, 53, apparently broke into a home, tidied up, and then left her personal information behind so that the homeowners might pay her for the unrequested services.

Warren "broke into a home on Dover Center Road back on May 22 and started to clean while the homeowner was upstairs asleep," Westlake police said, according to Fox 8 News.

"The woman got up, came downstairs, noticed things moved around, and also found a note written on a napkin that said, 'I cleaned your house. Please send $75, name, and address'," Police Captain Guy Turner, told Fox.

While the residents could not complain about the work that Warren did, they were unsettled by the fact that the woman had broken into their home; police found the note even more confounding.

"Some of the coffee cups had been washed, and the vacuum had been taken out. A few other things, like cleaning supplies that were out of place. Then of course, the most startling thing, the note written in a very un-businesslike fashion," Captain Turner said, describing the break in.

Warren appears to have a bad habit of breaking into houses in fact and tidying them up without the owner's permission.

"This may be a pattern of behavior for her," Captain Turner said, citing other incidents.

Brad Hartig of Olmsted Township admits that he had previously employed Warren to clean their house, but after he let her go she continued to show up uninvited.

"She said, 'I left you a note on your counter saying I'll be back two weeks later.' I told her, 'Remember, I told you we don't need you anymore, and you still tried to get in the house'," Hartig told Fox.

Stranger than the note is the fact that the burglar, now dubbed "the cleaning fairy," did not steal anything in the house while she tidied up.

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