SOUTH KINGSTOWN — The police say a 64-year-old local woman stole Tiffany lamps, computers, televisions and thousands of dollars in jewelry from homes and other buildings in the Kingston area and the University of Rhode Island over the past several years.

Margo A. Caddick, of 70 Cherry Rd., faces six felony charges of receiving stolen goods over $500 and six misdemeanor counts of receiving stolen goods less that $500, according to Capt. Jeffrey Allen.

Those charges are added to others filed against Caddick in March, when URI sorority sisters found her looking into the refrigerator at the Sigma Delta Tau house at around 5 a.m. She was charged then with burglary, possession of burglary tools and receiving stolen goods worth less than $500.

The South Kingstown and URI police later served search warrants at Caddick’s address and a family home at 108 Peninsula Rd., and seized other items believed to have been stolen, Allen said. They included backpacks belonging to URI students and stacks of electronics equipment, he said.

Officers tried to match the items with URI police theft reports, Allen said. South Kingstown and URI officers returned to the houses with Caddick’s lawyer, Lise Gescheidt, to try to identify other potentially stolen goods, he said.

It appeared the family had been hoarding and collecting items for decades, he said.

Caddick was charged last week with two possessing mission-style chairs and three Tiffany lamps stolen from URI’s International Engineering Program house, multiple stolen TVs and thousands of dollars in jewelry from her neighbors’ homes.

“We don’t believe she was doing it for money,” Allen said, suggesting mental heath issues might be a factor. “It’s one of these cases where it looks like she took things just for the sake of taking them.”

A World War II soldier’s letters home to his family during the war were among the stolen items that have been returned to their owner, he said. She was not charged with that theft.

Judge William C. Clifton released Caddick on personal recognizance after an appearance in District Court, Wakefield, last week, court records show. She was ordered not to trespass on the property of the 12 victims named in the charges.

Gescheidt could not be reached for comment by press time last night.

Police have an album filled with other potentially stolen items that people can make an appointment to view with detectives, Allen said.

kmulvane@projo.com