BY DARRELL HALEN 

Two former employees of Greystone Farm at Salem are accused of stealing bedroom furniture while working at the assisted living community last summer.

Michelle Longo, 45, of 11North St., Erving, Mass., formerly of Derry, and Therese Maylone, 33, of 246 Massabesic St., Manchester, were each indicted on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking by a Rockingham County grand jury.

The furniture was reported stolen from a stairwell at the bottom floor of the facility.

According to an arrest affidavit written by Det. Michael Kelly, the facility’s senior executive director, Christen Bergeron, and assistant executive director, Carol Salvatore, told him that Maylone and Longo were seen standing in the vicinity of the stairwell when alarms were activated by a door leading to the facility’s rear parking lot being opened around 9:30p.m. on July 13.

When Kelly interviewed Maylone, she admitted that she, Longo, and Longo’s boyfriend loaded the furniture in his van mand put a lounge chair in Maylone’s car between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. on July 13, according to the affidavit.

Maylone told Kelly the women had been told that the furniture was going to be thrown away. In a separate interview, Longo also admitted that she and Maylone took the furniture but claimed another employee told them it was going to be discarded and that they could take it, according to Kelly’s affidavit. But that employee denied to police she told the women they could take the furniture.

After receiving consent to search the women’s homes, Kelly and another officer seized a mattress, box spring, bed frame, head board, dresser, dresser mirror, lamp and pillow, valued at $4,200, from Longo’s Derry home and the lounge chair, valued at $1,500, from Maylone’s home.

The women will be arraigned next month. Each charge is punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a $4,000 fine.