MONROE — A couple sought as fugitives earlier this week have been arrested in Ohio and are facing extradition to Wisconsin, Green County Sheriff Mark Rohloff announced Wednesday.

Samuel Russell Schutte, 34, and his girlfriend Stephanie Elizabeth Retzlaff, 28, are wanted by multiple Wisconsin law enforcement agencies on numerous criminal charges, including charges in Green County for an armed robbery of Schutte’s mother, thefts from a Town of Exeter couple and thousands of dollars in forged checks.

Rohloff released a public safety alert seeking the pair on Monday, explaining that they had been on a months-long crime spree and had evaded police multiple times in recent days.

On Tuesday, police in Toledo arrested Schutte after encountering him with a stolen vehicle, according to Rohloff.

Retzlaff was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service at a Toledo residence Wednesday afternoon.

“We appreciate the public’s cooperation with the many leads with potential sightings of these subjects. Fortunately this was brought to a safe and quick conclusion,” Rohloff wrote in an update on Wednesday.

Schutte is from Monroe and was released earlier this year from prison for a 2011 home invasion and robbery here. He and another man had targeted a Monroe home for the burglary because they knew one of the residents was prescribed the prescription narcotic pain reliever Fentanyl. He is still on parole for that case.

Retzlaff is from the Madison area. She has misdemeanor theft and drug convictions on her record in Wisconsin and is on probation for a case out of Columbia County.

Criminal complaints have already been filed in recent weeks against the couple in Green, Dane and Rock counties.

Among the local charges is an armed robbery on Sept. 5 at Schutte’s parents’ rural Monroe home on Smock Valley Road. Court records indicate Schutte and Retzlaff used a gun they stole a month earlier from his parents to hold up his mother while she was home alone. She later told deputies she went to her bank and withdrew $2,500 in cash to give them because she feared for her life.