Thieves stole more than a $1,000 of merchandise from a locally owned business in Branson.

With the help of technology, some of those goods are back in the hands of their owner.

"This afternoon or this morning the gentlemen came back in the store, I didn't recognize him at first because he had shaved his beard, he started to let his shaved head grow back out," said Merve Feik.

Merve Feik is the owner of Prehistoric Fossils in Branson. The man he is referring to is one of the individuals accused of stealing about $1400 worth of merchandise Feik caught on his security cameras. He says the man told him it was his first time ever shoplifting.

"He was so sorry, begging for forgiveness, please don't prosecute and I told him straight in his face, you guys were too smooth, too polished for that to have been your first time," said Feik.

The man even brought Feik back some of the stolen items.

"He brought some cash because they had broken the goods and he was gonna try and pay for the goods that they broke, but I wouldn't accept anything from him until the police officers got here," said Feik.

Merve then contacted the Branson Police who arrested him.

"The police officers told me they called her and spoke with her and she was going to be coming into the police station to turn herself in," said Feik.

But he says it couldn't have happened if it wasn't for the community seeing the news and sharing it on social media.

"Thank you because without you it would have been difficult to catch these two," said Feik.

Feik says he plans to go forward with prosecuting the couple.