An Austin woman accused of stealing jewelry from The Cedars and allowing her husband to pawn it for more than $3,000 pleaded guilty to three felonies in Mower County District Court Thursday.

Marissa Marie Tuttle, 23, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree burglary and one of theft in exchange for five other felony charges being dismissed.

Her husband, Dustin Richard Leidall, 30, recently pleaded guilty to being an accessory of burglary.

According to a court complaint, an Austin police detective was investigating a string of recent jewelry thefts at The Cedars in Austin when he discovered Tuttle, a CNA who works at The Cedars, was working the shifts during the hours of the thefts.

When officers entered Tuttle’s name into the Automated Pawn System, they found she sold two rings at Pawn America in Rochester in June. Her boyfriend, Leidall, sold 42 pieces of jewelry, totaling more than $3,600, between June and July.

Police spoke with a Pawn America employee who remembered Leidall saying he had “gotten lucky” when he purchased an abandoned storage unit.

Leidall told police he and Tuttle had been pawning jewelry Tuttle had gotten from a “free table” at work.

More than 100 pieces of jewelry were seized from Tuttle’s vehicle, according to a court complaint. Tuttle admitted to telling Leidall she found the jewelry on a free table. He said he was suspicious but didn’t question her because of money troubles, according to a court complaint.

Police had the jewelry appraised at Bendixen Jewelers, where the worth of all the pieces was determined to be at least $6,000. The jewelry was taken from at least five victims, according to a court complaint.

Tuttle was reportedly carrying five Oxycodone pills and seven Hydrocodone pills at the time of her arrest. The felony drug charge was dismissed as part of Thursday’s plea agreement.

Leidall is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 10, and Tuttle will be sentenced Jan. 26, 2012.