Woman says she pawned cameras, but didn't take them

NICEVILLE – A Niceville woman hocked her neighbor’s digital cameras, but she says it was his roommate who took them, not her.

A serviceman contacted Niceville Police to report the cameras – three digital models and several lenses – had gone missing. He told officers he’d been doing some remodeling at his home and thought he’d misplaced them, but now that things were getting straightened out, he still couldn’t find them.

Officers used the serial numbers to discover the cameras had been pawned in Fort Walton Beach. The name signed to the pawn tickets was Andrea Lynn Eller. The man confirmed Eller was a neighbor. He’d left his house keys with her to check his house while he was deployed overseas.

Eller admitted to officers she pawned the cameras, but said the man’s roommate gave them to her and asked her to hold them for awhile. When the roommate didn’t return for them, she pawned them.

The roommate told officers she’d never met Eller, and she too was missing some items from the home, a bicycle among them.

Eller was charged with dealing in stolen property. Her court date is listed as May 14.