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    Default Can I Still Get Arrested for Shoplifting After I Left the Store

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: Utah

    I shoplifted and I feel really bad and guilty about it. I wish I would have never done it. I'm never doing it again. I took some items from a store in the mall. I was trying to be careful when concealing them. I don't know if the cameras caught the exact moment or not. Then when I left that spot, it seemed like someone was following me. They were talking on the phone and said elevator (we were in the elevator) and mentioned an item I took. When we got out I stopped and looked at something else but that person stopped and looked at things too. I waited a bit and when I came back she wasn't there. I left the store. I'm just so scared they will come to my house and arrest me. I feel really bad and I can't stop thinking about it it's driving me crazy. What could happen? Can I get arrested?

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    Default Re: Can I Still Get Arrested for Shoplifting After I Left the Store

    Of course you can still be arrested. There isn't any law anywhere in the US that says if you get out of the store with the stolen goods without being stopped, you're home free.

    Whether you WILL be arrested will depend on whether the cameras caught you enough to identify you or not, which we do not know.

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    Default Re: Can I Still Get Arrested for Shoplifting After I Left the Store

    How soon will I know?

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    Default Re: Can I Still Get Arrested for Shoplifting After I Left the Store

    When either they show up at your door to arrest you or the statute of limitations expires, whichever comes first.

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    Default Re: Can I Still Get Arrested for Shoplifting After I Left the Store

    Thank you. When does it expire?

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    Or how long will it take them to identify me

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    Default Re: Can I Still Get Arrested for Shoplifting After I Left the Store

    Depending on what you took and the laws of your state it could be six months to a few years. Chances are if they don't show up in the next couple of months, you got away with being a thief. This time.

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    Default Re: Can I Still Get Arrested for Shoplifting After I Left the Store

    Keep expecting them to show up at your door. It sometimes takes a while to identify thieves from camera unless they already have a record. they start looking through yearbooks etc in their spare time and post the photo hoping someone will identify you.

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