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    Default Retail Theft, Wrongly Accused

    I was in the Mall with my son in a stroller. I put several items on the top of the stroller and in the basket underneath in a bag.I went to the fitting room, my son was upset and started crying.I left the fitting room and put all the items back in the stroller. I rushed to the entrance of the store and exited leaving the stroller by the entrance. With my son in my arms I headed to another store to purchase a bottle of water.I went back to the original store to resume shopping with the stroller. I am being charged for leaving the store without paying for the items. I tried to explain I had no intention to shoplift.I`m a employee at the mall, I`m not from the U.S. I would never jeopardize my job or my status. I showed all my documents. I showed credit cards, I informed them I had money, and just had come from another store making purchases for 200.00 dollars, and did the same with the bags under the stroller. I had the receipts in my bag from the other stores as proof.I signed a report and was informed the items I had totaled over 300.00 dollars. Security informed they viewed me on a security camera exiting the store with the items in the stroller. The police took me to jail. I had a bond of 3000 dollars before talking to the judge.I was released on my own recognizance the next day. I have to appear in court in June. I'm not allowed in any shopping mall. I have no criminal record what are my options?
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    Default Re: Retail Theft, Wrongly Accused

    You left the store with your unpaid items to buy a bottle of water, then you say you returned to the store with your unpaid items to continue shopping. So you were confronted for shoplifting after you were back in the original store? And you had not touched the items between the time you left to buy water and when you returned? Why did they detain you at that point? (And they have no water fountains or other place to get a drink of water in that store?)

    You can browse through the forum - "My child was crying," "I rushed to another location for some reason," "I forgot it was in the stroller," etc. are excuses very frequently used by shoplifters. That makes it really difficult for anybody else to succeed with those excuses, even when it's a genuine mistake.

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