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Question: What is the difference between a person younger than 18 and a person over 18 getting caught for shoplifting?
Answer: A person younger than 18 may be tried for the criminal offense by the juvenal court, but if he has a record he could be tried as an adult. So, there could be no difference at all.
An adult or an emancipated minor may be sued by the shopkeeper for the value of the goods plus one hundred dollars, plus any actual damage to the owner.
If the minor is not emancipated, his parents may be sued for all of these things. Where the person is tried as an adult, if the value of the stolen property is over $250.00, the crime charged will be a felony. If the is a prior offense, and the person charged has brought anything that can be used to help shoplift (tools, clothes with special pockets, etc. ) then the crime charged will be a felony.
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On 07/21/03
Cooper from AZ said:
I am a security officer in Arizona dealing with mall private property as well as a management companies private property and yes, even though there is less evidence for prosecution and it doesnt make a strong case, you can be detained for "INTENT" to steal as well as for shoplifting from the store. In the cases I have seen, a local best buys policy describes intent as any sort of concealment of the item as intent to steal. This means if you put the item in your pocket, walk towards the doors or some sort of "invisible" line pre-established by the stores loss prevention (like the checkout lin
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On 02/16/03
Anonymous from CA said:
Me and a friend tried shoplifting at a store (yes it was stupid) and we got caught when we were about to leave the store. My friend told me he saw a special on TV that said you can't get charged if you don't leave the store, and we weren't even out the door yet. Also, they charged us for "attempted" items. These items were not with us when we were leaving the store. They charged us for these items, and now we're being sent to court. They asked us what each of us attempted, and I took one item was that 130 dollars, and a friend a camera that was 70. Together that makes 200 dollars, but th
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On 01/26/02
Barry Snelgrove from IN said:
If you are caught trying to shoplift something from a store, but never leave the store with anything you just
leave the things in the store and take off. Can you still be charged with anything?
For example: My friend was caught at a store trying to shoplift things by puting them in a sack. The sales clerk saw him put
the things in a sack, but my friend droped the sack and left the store with out taking anything, could he get into any trouble?
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