An O'ahu man has pleaded guilty to stealing a $6,000 pair of night-vision goggles from a missile cruiser in drydock at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.

Kaimana Cummings faces up to 10 years in federal prison when he is sentenced in September by U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway.

Cummings was a civilian employee on night watch last June when he pocketed the goggles he found in a storeroom aboard the USS Chosin. He said Tuesday that he took them to try out at home.

Cummings says he intended to return the goggles, but kept them because he was afraid of getting caught during boarding searches.

He surrendered the goggles after naval investigators accused him of taking them.