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A Salt Lake City apartment manager missed the lengthy criminal history of a live-in maintenance worker — until police made an arrest

Some residents of the Ball Park Apartmentsin Salt Lake City are on edge after a maintenance worker with access to their homes was discovered to have a long criminal history, including convictions for identity fraud and theft.

Property managers say a criminal background check conducted by an outside company on April Ann Swenson-Shaw, 37, came back clean before she was hired last fall as a live-in maintenance technician at the residential complex at 1380 S. West Temple.

Swenson-Shaw had just been paroled from the Utah State Prison in September. This February, she was arrested at the apartment complex and sent back to prison for parole violations, alarming Ball Park residents, many of whom are elderly or disabled.