The victim had just returned to her Roper Street home when she saw Angela Pressnell run out the back door.

Pressnell took off towards a car - which the victim had herself only just seen - and got inside, then was driven away.

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A police crime scene officer later found a fingerprint on an oil lamp Pressnell dropped on the front lawn.

The now 28-year-old had also lost her grip on a mirror that was part of a $6760 haul from the house.

This included a range of expensive crystal objects, including vases, and an antique clock.

Pressnell has pleaded guilty in Albury Local Court, via a video link to jail, to a series of charges, including break and enter house and steal and possess a prohibited drug.

"Keep yourself drug-free while you're in custody, Ms Pressnell," magistrate Richard Funston told her on adjourning sentencing to June 1.

Pressnell committed her first break-in on a house in Macauley Street, Albury, in early September, stealing goods valued at $500 including a red suitcase, a Gladstone bag and clippers.

A swab taken from an empty plastic drug bag later found on a chair contained DNA matched to Pressnell.

The Roper Street burglary was on January 8, with many of the items later recovered from a Wodonga storage facility leased by the woman who drove Pressnell away from the scene.

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