INDIANAPOLIS — A 20-year-old Indianapolis man is behind bars after being arrested and accused of stealing guns and selling them for cash.
The alleged crime was caught on surveillance video.
According to court documents, this was an inside job by an employee at EZPAWN on Pendleton Pike in Lawrence.
Police said Myron Anderson admitted to stealing guns from the pawn shop where he worked so he could take pictures with them to look "cool" on social media before he then threw them out because he was scared.
The alleged crime was first discovered by the pawn shop manager.
"They noticed a gun missing, and the EZPAWN did an inventory of all their firearms and noticed that they had 19 missing," Lawrence Police Department's Deputy Chief Travis Cline said.
Court documents explain when the manager checked surveillance video from the past week inside the store, he saw Anderson alone in a back room where jewelry, guns and high-dollar items are stored.
Investigators said video over two days showed Anderson in the back room at closing time.
According to police, the video shows Anderson walking out of the camera's view of the room where guns are kept.
Police said the video also shows Anderson carrying what appears to be a bag of trash, dragging an open TV box toward his car, before carrying both to a dumpster.
According to police, Anderson admitted to stealing 12 guns, keeping two and selling 10 so he could pay for a vacation to Jamaica.
The other seven guns are still unaccounted for.
Prosecutors charged Anderson with 12 felony counts of theft.
"Whoever he sold the guns to, that guy could have sold them to another person and another person and another person, so we just got to try and get our hands back on them," Cline said.
Anderson told police, during the final sale on June 23, the people he was selling the gun to robbed him, taking the gun and his cellphone.
"It's guns that you people buy from other people," Cline said. "Those guns get in the hands of the wrong individuals, and again, that's where all the gun violence starts."
The case doesn't just end there.
Investigators said there's potential Anderson will face federal charges for trafficking stolen weapons.