My roommate and I were caught shoplifting at a walmart in north carolina. We purchased an item and each took an additional item out the door with the original receipt. The item was valued at just under $200.
The LP guy confronted us at our car and instructed us to cooperate or we'd be tazed. He took us in, got our ids, and did the paperwork. He said that this was not a job of a first time offender but we had just read about the process online. The cops came and they interogated us in the same fashion as the lp manager. They recovered the items from my car and searched my car for other merchandise (officer asked if we had stolen the cases of mello yello in my trunk as well). The cops gave us our citations and each one states that we took $396. However, as I said above we each took out 1 item.
They said we would go to jail if we didn't sign the trespassing form so we did. He then searched through our wallets, counting our cash, looking at other sales receipts, pictures, things like that. He found a receipt where i bought my tv from best buy and accused me of stealing that as well and upon seeing it was an employee purchased he said I must've gotten fired for stealing.
When we said we were free to go he stopped us and said he better know the truth before we left. We told him we'd already told him the whole story and he threatened to have my car impounded and finally just told us to leave.
I'm not going to get into the sob story about needing cash or anything like that. It was stupid and we shouldn't have done it. Neither of us have ever been in any trouble. What should I do? What are the possible charges?

