GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - An apparent mother-daughter burglary team has been formally charged in Brown County with burglary and are suspected in more than three dozen break-ins in two other counties. 

48-year-old Melody Menghini and 30-year-old Abby Nevin was charged with numerous counts of burglary in Brown County. 

The two apparently would scope out or burglarize a place with a small child, if they were caught, they would claim they needed to use the phone for an emergency. 

The pair are suspected in 38 burglaries in Door and Kewaunee counties. 

It wasn’t until last weekend did they get a desciption of the suspects, when a 13-year-old arrived home and found the two inside.  A tip later in the week led to their arrest after the two women with a child knocked on the door of a Hoaward man's home.