Detained By Store Manager for Having Fake ID

BOR - Look, it's your choice. You can either show me what you have in your pockets or you can show the police. You can make it hard or easy on yourself, it's your choice. There were occasions where we would search and would usually do it with a security officer (not a LEO) present. I can't remember what the LP guidelines were back then, but I am pretty sure that we could legally perform a reasonable search of the person. ...and a guy never searched a woman and vice-versa.

In WV, at the time I was there, we had 1 hour where we could detain the person. We could search them, but only if we had solid and firm evidence. We required parents to pick up the juvenile if they were in the mall or released the juvenile to the police if the parents could not get them. Granted, some of the juveniles were little brothers and little sisters of friends and I was guilty of cutting them a break.

Generally showing the videotape was good enough to get our merchandise back and send them on their way. It looks like they changed that to 1/2 hour detention.

I had never heard of a problem for this, but that was nearly 15 years ago before America got sue-happy. Nowadays it would probably be a quick decision; call the police and let them handle the criminal, burning a copy of the camera information to DVD and all that good stuff. ...LP seems like it would be easier today.

...and it's funny that 70% of thefts still are inside jobs.