Can You Be Charged With Burglary for Selling a Door Key to Your Employer's Business

So i live in New York City and i was working in a Ben & Jerrys , while the store was doing renovation i found a store key which the construction worker lost , i told one of my co workers who wasnt working at the time that i found it and he told me if i was to give him the key he will give me $600 and all i had to do is give him the key , so the same day while i was ending my shift i met him 4 blocks away from the store and gave him the key , he took money from the safe and gave me 600 , a week later when the store opens they notice the safe is missing so they open a investigation and they followed my coworker on camera retracing his steps until they see me giving him the key , a detective came to speak to me and i cooperated told him how everything went down because he said he will help me out since im on probation for an assault case , i told the truth about everything but i never gave my co worker up they couldnt see his face on camera , and now they saying im going to get a felony charge for burglary , i just want to know can they charge me with Felony if all i did was give him the key and went home ?

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i just want to know can they charge me with Felony if all i did was give him the key and went home ?

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Yes.

Your co-worker is a thief and you are an idiot.

Hire a lawyer right now, before you do or say anything else to anybody.

You may have already talked yourself into prison.

SMH.

You can argue you no knowledge that the key was going to be used to commit the burglary. but the fact that you knew what the key unlocked and you sold it for $600 implies you had full knowledge of what it was going to be used for. Even though you were not present when the burglary occurred, by selling the burglar the key, you aided in the commission of that crime. In most states, such conduct is punishable as if you committed the crime itself.

Your co-worker committed a burglary by entering the store when he was not supposed to be there and stealing the money from the safe. Under New York Penal Code section 20 you are also liable for the burglary if you solicited, requested, commanded, importuned, or intentionally aided the co-worker. The state’s argument is going to be that in selling him the key you were either a partner with the co-worker in the crime or at least knew that the key would be used for criminal conduct and thus are guilty of the burglary as well because you intentionally aided him in the crime. It likely wouldn’t be hard to convince a jury that you knew what was going down. No one would buy the store key from you for $600 unless he was going to commit some crime with this, probably some theft offense, and surely you had to know that. You’d have had to be extremely clueless not to figure that out, and that is exactly what a jury is going to think too. You better get yourself a very good lawyer. With the prior conviction for assault if you get convicted on this burglary charge I think you’ll likely end up doing state prison time. Moreover, a conviction on burglary from your employer will make it very hard for you to get any decent job; few employers will want to take a risk on a guy who was part of a theft from a previous employer. They won’t want to be your next victim. This was a very, very bad choice on your part.