COLLIER COUNTY - A man gets a big surprise while shopping at a local pawn shop. His own friend was selling his stolen fishing rods.

Workers at Capital Pawn on Davis Boulevard are flabbergasted.

"Our company's been open 20 years," says Regional Manager Ken Egan. "We've never seen a situation like that."

One of their customers, seen on this surveillance video last week, says he was shopping for some jewelry when his friend Alex Martin walked through the door.

"I said hey alex how you doing?," says Keith Miller. "He looked at me like a deer in the headlights."

"I would describe his eyes as big as flying saucers," says Egan.

In Martin's hands were three fishing rods.

"Well I walked up there and they were my rods," says Miller.

Everyone in the store was shocked, even the District Manager

"For someone to come in the door with something while the victim at the same time was one in a million," says Egan.

"Everybody else in the store was laughing too," says Miller.

But it didn't stop there. Apparently, Martin was trying to convince everyone that Miller had loaned him the rods.

"He was trying to convince the guy that he let him borrow them a long time ago, of course that wasn't true," says Egan.

"I said some expletives to him and he ran out of the store," says Miller.

So, Miller called the sheriff's office.

"The guy is gonna get what's due to him," says Miller.

Everyone who witnessed it has quite a story to tell.

"It's something I probably won't ever get a chance to see again in our lifetime," says Egan.

Martin was later arrested and charged with grand theft, dealing in stolen property and defrauding a pawnbroker. More charges may be pending.