A Satsuma woman remains in jail after being accused of stealing an air compressor and pawning it for $50, authorities said.
Shauntiana Alexia Browning, 31, was charged with fraud, dealing stolen property and one count of felony burglary on Saturday, according to the Putnam County Jail inmate search.
The victim told authorities they heard the home’s garage motion sensor beep, according to a Palatka Police Department incident report in which the victim’s name, age and gender were redacted. The victim said that when they walked outside their house that morning, they saw a car parked in the yard and a woman, later identified as Browning, standing outside the garage.
“(Browning) began asking if she can walk around inside (the victim’s) home or (the victim’s) garage to look around,” Officer Hailey Mizell wrote in the report.
The victim, who declined the suspect’s request, told authorities they looked at the front passenger seat of the car Browning was driving and saw an air compressor, which had originally been sitting in front of the victim’s garage motion sensors. The victim requested the item be returned, the report stated, but Browning insisted it was hers.
“When (the victim) attempted to approach the vehicle, (Browning) got back into the driver’s seat and fled the scene northbound on (South 15th Street) at a high rate of speed,” Mizell writes.
Officers located the vehicle later that day and found it was registered to Browning’s husband, to whom officers later spoke, authorities said. But when officers spoke with him, the car and Browning were not at the home, according to the report.
After the victim identified Browning in a photo lineup officers conducted, officers returned to the home where they spoke with her husband to find the car parked in the driveway, the report states. Browning’s husband denied she was home, but she eventually came to the door eventually, the report stated.
Officers reported Browning was wearing the same clothes the victim reported seeing Browning wearing outside their home earlier Saturday.
Browning told authorities she “was asked by an unidentified Black male” to steal and pawn the air compressor, according to the incident report.
“Browning admitted to being at the scene of the crime and advised she did not ‘burglarize’ (the) home as she did not enter (the) residence,” Mizell wrote in the report.
When authorities questioned if she still had the air compressor, Browning said she had already pawned it on behalf of a”crackhead who was willing to give her half the money she pawned it for,” according to the report.
Officers reported the air compressor was worth $105 but a pawn shop gave Browning only $50, which she split evenly with the “unknown male subject.”
Prior to being apprehended, Browning had a warrant out for her arrest after failing to return leased property from a furniture store, the police reported. She remained in the Putnam County Jail on Wednesday without bail.