One of four suspects in a residential burglary Dec. 8 in the Highlands was charged Tuesday – and has admitted she was involved in burglaries earlier in the day.

Stephanny Shabri Johnson, 23, who lives in the Seward Park area of Seattle, is out of custody after posting $5,000 bail after her first court appearance on Dec. 9.

Johnson’s role in the burglary on Northeast 19th Street just west of Duvall Avenue was to knock on the door. No one answered, so she returned to a waiting green Buick backed into the driveway, according to charging papers.

Three other suspects then entered the house. A resident upstairs investigated after hearing a bang, when the suspects kicked in the front door.

He found one of the suspects, a female, standing in his parents’ room. She used an expletive, then yelled, “Someone’s here.” The drawers had been pulled from his mother’s dresser and placed on the floor.

A male suspect ran into the bedroom, closing the door behind him. The female told him “We’ve got to get out of here.” She ran downstairs and the man fled out the second-floor bathroom window.

All four then left in the Buick.

Sheriff’s deputies stopped the Buick just minutes after it left the house at  2:10 p.m. because it matched a suspect vehicle in a burglary earlier that day in Newcastle. The two male suspects fled, but the younger of the two women stayed and was arrested. Johnson was inside the car.

Johnson told investigators she was involved in several burglaries earlier on Dec. 8, what charging papers describe as “a spree of burglaries spanning from Renton to Bellevue and Newcastle.” The investigation is continuing.

The two male suspects remain at large.

Johnson has no criminal record, according to prosecutors.