Doctor arrested for breaking into store www.privateofficer.com

ORLAND PARK, Ill. Nov. 30, 2007 - If you happen to lock yourself out of your former employer's office during an attempted break-in, you might not want to ask for help to retrieve the incriminating evidence you left behind.
Police believe Silva Schleiter-Doede, 43, of 17364 S. Parker Road, Lockport, did just that Sunday when she found herself locked out of the closed and locked office at JC Penney's optical department in the Orland Square Mall.
Schleiter-Doede, a doctor, has in the past subcontracted for JC Penney, but she stopped working for the company in April this year, police said.
Orland Park police said she found a hidden key and used it Sunday to open the office within the main store, which was open at the time. Police said she was inside for about two hours.
During that time, she twice carried items from the office to her car, security tapes show, though JC Penney isn't sure what she took, police said.
When Schleiter-Doede discovered she'd locked herself out of the office - where her purse and other belongings still were sitting - she asked a store employee for help, police said.
The move almost worked. The employee agreed to help her. He found a ladder and tried to climb into the drop ceiling. From there, he planned to climb into the office and open the door.
But after he climbed up the ladder, the man decided it was too dangerous and climbed back down.
Schleiter-Doede, getting desperate, decided to scale the ladder and crawl into the ceiling.
As she climbed the ladder, the employee tried to stop her, telling her to get off the ladder. Schleiter-Doede continued, however, and climbed into the ceiling where she fell through, smashing ceiling tiles and a metal pipe as she crashed to the floor. The fall cut her finger, which then bled on the floor.
Schleiter-Doede has been charged with criminal trespass and criminal damage.

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