An 18-year-old former stripper and her boyfriend face multiple charges for a four-month burglary spree in which they sold the items they stole from houses to feed their heroin habit, police said Monday. April Fetsick, of Forest Hills, and Matthew Dugan, 20, of Squirrel Hill, are being held in the Allegheny County Jail. Fetsick faces 28 counts of receiving stolen property for burglarizing homes in Lincoln Place, Friendship, Point Breeze and Shadyside beginning in November, said Sgt. Kevin Gasiorowski, head of the Pittsburgh police burglary squad. Dugan faces 14 counts of receiving stolen property and one count of conspiracy. "The motivation for the burglaries was to finance drug addictions," Gasiorowski said. Fetsick and Dugan shared a $150-a-day heroin habit, he said. They were caught Wednesday by a man whose home they were in the process of burglarizing and by his neighbor, an off-duty Homestead police officer, police said. The men chased and caught Fetsick and Dugan after they jumped from the second story of the victim's home on Harvey Avenue, Munhall police Sgt. Joseph Cibula said. Munhall police intend to charge the couple with three additional counts of burglary, Cibula said. He interviewed both suspects and described Fetsick as cooperative and said Dugan has previous arrests for drugs and burglary. Dugan and Fetsick cased homes to see whether residents were home, police said, and entered residences through unlocked rear doors and sometimes through unlocked second-floor windows. Police said they stole cash, jewels and at least two guns, and sold the loot on the street. The burglary spree vexed detectives because the suspects constantly changed neighborhoods and left behind little evidence at crime scenes, in some cases wearing gloves while they ransacked homes, Gasiorowski said. The thieves usually struck in the morning or afternoon, almost always in daylight, he said. "If that resident in Munhall hadn't come home when he did" the two could still be in business, Gasiorowski said. Dugan was released from jail in October after serving time for burglary, police said. He and Fetsick, with whom he had a previous relationship, then teamed up, police said. Police described Fetsick as a former stripper who turned to burglary to finance a two-year addiction to heroin. "She needs to get off the drugs," Cibula said. Fetsick's bond has been set at $50,000; Dugan's is $100,000.

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