A while back I got caught taking like $30 worth of merchandise from Meijer. It was a civil demand and I never took care of it. More recently I was caught at Kmart taking DVD's which were probably a few hundred dollars worth. I recieved a civil demand from Kmart also without police involved. Just a few days ago I was pulled over and arrested for 3'rd degree retail fraud. I figured it was for the Meijer incident. The part I don't understand is when I was arraigned, the judge mentioned Kmart. The Kmart incident only happened a few weeks ago, and I hadn't even recieved my demand letter in the mail yet. How could I have had a warrant for the recent one before I even recieved my civil demand in the mail? The judge didn't even mention Meijer. On a seperate recent incident, the police were at my parents house looking for me accusing me of taking something from Sears. But I don't understand how I could have got arrested for that either because the judge only mentioned Kmart. Since the police were looking for me because of Sears, I'm guessing that is where the warrant is coming from. But they didn't catch me with anything, they just wrote down my plate. Meijer and Kmart both caught me red handed. But Kmart seems too recent to have a warrant already and the judge didn't even mention anything about Meijer or Sears. Can someone please make sense of this?

