A woman pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to steal at least $500,000 worth of gold from 37 homes in Northern Virginia in 2009.

Melinda M. Soto, 34, of New York City, admitted in federal court in Alexandria that she and two conspirators, including her husband, burglarized gold and other valuables from homes of South Asian families in Fairfax and Loudoun counties. They then took that property to New York, where they sold it, court documents say.