An East Bethel teenager is accused of squeezing through a neighbor’s doggy door to help feed a pornography addiction.

The neighbor allegedly caught the 18-year-old on surveillance footage after noticing several items missing from his East Bethel house, according to a criminal complaint filed in Anoka County District Court.

Darin Paul Pake, 44, told investigators the footage showed Amanda Rose Owens – his children’s former baby sitter – sliding into his house through his doggy door at 7:50 a.m. Monday. She is then seen rummaging through Pake’s things and grabbing a Red Bull out of his refrigerator before leaving at 8:10 a.m., the complaint said.

The surveillance camera was set up after Pake noticed that a camera, brief case and a jar of money holding about $300 had recently been stolen.

“Had he not set up that camera, we would have never known….It was pretty clever,” Paul Sommer, Anoka County sheriff’s spokesman, said about Pake’s tactic.

When interviewed by investigators, Owens allegedly confessed to the crime, saying she broke into the house three times, always through the doggy door, the complaint said. She said she stole things she thought she could pawn to help support her pornography addiction.

The teenager said she recently had bought 20 to 30 pornographic DVDs and needed to pay them off, the complaint said.

Authorities believe Owens targeted Pake’s house because she was familiar with it and knew about the animal entrance.

“Using the pet door, that’s a unique angle,” Sommer said.

Owens was charged Wednesday with second-degree burglary, which can carry up to 10 years in jail and a $20,000 fine if convicted. She was being held Wednesday in the Anoka County Jail.

Neither Owens, her family nor Pake could be reached for comment.

Owens has no known criminal history in Minnesota.

Sarah Horner can be reached at 651-228-5539. Follow her at twitter.com/hornsarah.