Can a Store Detain a Minor They Catch Stealing

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Quoting oxsuga4114

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Actually to be technical these aren't MY charges, they were my friends charges. I posted them for an answer so I can help him, so actually you guys can get the dick out your ass, my record is clean. Thankyou. Suck a fat one.

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so your friend has a moron for a friend. Maybe your friend should make better choices.

but if it was for "a friend", why was this in the first person:

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So recently I was detained in Walmart for shop lifting before I had even left the store, they had brought me into the loss prevention room. The loss prevention security guy demanded me to, "Throw his shit on the ground, all of it." I cooperated although I wasn't really fond of his attitude. He had as

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Well like they say ignorance is bliss. Clearly, you don't know me or the situation but of course you are always right. Research your juvenile laws. Thief? For a situation that happened once? You do not know me or anything about me to even THINK you know about me. I'm a good kid, got caught up in a bad neighborhood with bad examples of friends. But since you know EVERYTHING about my life I'll continue to let you speak like you do. This was a simple question in which you had take out of proportion which was uncalled for where you did not have to approach me rudely. You could have explained it professionally.

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I honestly cannot tell you the exact number of hours, I might've exaggerated time wise but I was still in there longer than an hour.

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and if it was for "a friend" what do your parents have to do with it (and again, written in the first person as well):

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My parents infact are not dumb, you don't know the whole situation or anything that went on that day except the brief description. I'm sorry they aren't smart in your parenting book. But the way the whole situation unravelled is worth the research. Regardless, I'm going to do my consequences given to me from the event that happened so please stop responding, because you don't know me, nor the whole situation. I asked you politely. Thank you.

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I see why and apparently you do to:

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My items infact WERE purchased. My friends items were not, my parents are NOT stupid, in fact I am.

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By attempting to conceal your friend's stolen property you could be charged as a principal to the crime - you could also be charged with conspiracy which, in some states, is a felony even if done in order to plot a misdemeanor theft.

You then go on to claim to have lied about the theft this whole time. What you need to know that in any legal proceeding, the court will evaluate the facts as known or reasonably believed by the parties involved at the time. If you were not the subject involved, then any analysis of the "facts" would be faulty as we have very few of them because you are unable to provide the facts as you were not there. If you were there as a witness and held in the same officer, then you should provide the "facts" objectively and not in the first person as if you were the suspect detained.

As it is, you have been shown to be a liar,. So, any further discussion is useless.

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Quoting cbg

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Uh-huh. Like I believe that.

Wasn't born yesterday, kid, and I didn't just fall off the turnip truck, either. Nice try.

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You are supposed to be a grown ass adult, and your acting like a teenager! Let me guess? You're an alcoholic? Drug addict? Domestic charges because you beat your significant other? Seems like a lot of you "lawful" people that know EVERYTHING apply to those options. Why don't you go to an AA meeting before picking an argument with a teenager. You look RIDICULOUS.

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Quoting jk

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so your friend has a moron for a friend. Maybe your friend should make better choices.

but if it was for "a friend", why was this in the first person:








and if it was for "a friend" what do your parents have to do with it (and again, written in the first person as well):



I see why and apparently you do to:

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My friend was responding, had left and I had kept responding for them so if you don't know who is behind the screen speaking or if there are others involved, your judgement in the situation

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Quoting Disagreeable

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Ultimately, store security has no obligation to give you special warning or privilege because you are a minor. When it goes to court, plan on video being presented which shows what actually did happen. You should ask mom n dad to hire you a lawyer and try to get diversion.

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You are the ONLY respectful and helpful person to comment on this thread. Thank you, we have already contacted a lawyer and they will meet with him (my friend) soon. He didn't expect special treatment, but he felt he should have got the option to wait for a parent and plead the fifth until his parents had arrived.

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To all of you harrassing me because my friend I posted to this thread... It's apparent who's really stupid because more than one person can operate through one account. Only people with common sense can add that up though.

So WE contacted a lawyer
if you have no legal issues, then why would you be contacting anybody?


And while you want to whine about you being held to statements your friend made, please show where you gave notice that you were stepping in for your friend and after that point the person posting had no first hand knowledge so any information that poster gave was not dependable.

Aw, Aaron pulled out Sledgie before I could!

Yep, this kid needs an ass blistering. And a bite of soap for good measure.

As others have stated the store has every right to detain you for a reasonable amount of time until the police arrive. Furthermore the store must take into account your safety and allow you access to medication and water upon request if you are not a danger.

When you shoplift the store has every right with probable cause to detain you and question you. You deprived them of their product and they have to recover it and if it means detaining you and charging you then your at the mercy of the store.

Sorry but if you committed a crime you will indeed do the time.

Had this person been honest with us, I would want to know their age, how quickly the police were called after they were detained, and what they meant by supposedly being "forced" to sign a document. It sounds like we're talking about an older teen who easily could have been above 18 by appearance but, depending on the details of what happened, it could make a difference if we're talking about an 11-year-old.