When Edward Beck of Fort Lauderdale picked up a Sun-Sentinel and saw the photograph of Patsy Lakisha Jones, the woman accused of shooting to death a German tourist in Miami 11 days ago, he knew he had seen the face before.

Beck, 41, assistant manager at Cash Inn Pawn & Jewelry in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood, recognized Jones as the customer who had hocked an expensive item on Sept. 7, the day before Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand was shot to death while driving to Miami Beach by three would-be robbers.

“I bought the paper on Davie Boulevard on my way to work and I said: ‘Hey, I did a pawn for that girl!'” Beck said on Saturday. “It was a drab exchange but I remember her because she was kind of pudgy for her size. I’d say about 230 pounds and just over 5 feet.”

Neither Beck nor detectives would identify the item hocked. Police did say it was stolen and worth hundreds of dollars.

Police have returned the stolen item to its owner, whom they would not identify.

But the item may belong to Chicago businessman Thomas Walsh, 50, robbed by the trio on the Airport Expressway as he headed to a Fort Lauderdale hotel the day before Rakebrand’s murder.

Jones, 20, her boyfriend, Ricondall Wiggins, and Alvin Hudson, both 19, are all charged with the first-degree murder of Rakebrand, 33.

Police said the three staged a months-long crime spree through South Florida before their arrest. And police think some of their stolen loot was unloaded at pawn shops in south Broward and north Dade counties. “We are asking all pawn shop owners to search their minds and see if she rings a bell with them, maybe even under a different name” said Miami homicide Sgt. Gerald Green, the lead investigator in the case.

The faces of Jones, Wiggins and Hudson are ringing bells with other victims.

The three were arraigned on Saturday on additional armed robbery charges for two holdups of the Sun Beauty Supply store in North Miami Beach in June and July. A third robbery of the store was foiled when the group realized a surveillance camera had been installed.

Pawn shop owners with information are asked to call Green at 1-305-579-6530.