I went to Meijer with my two friends without knowing they were both planning on shoplifting. However, later on they told me, and they concealed items in their bags, after ripping open packages and leaving them hidden around the store. I bought 3 drinks, and then we left, no alarms went off, and a man stopped us, showed us his badge, and had us follow him to the back. He told us he followed us throughout the whole time we were in the store.
From there, the detective asked us to sit down, and he went through the contents of my friends' bags. I did not personally have anything stolen on me. He said he wasn't going to call the police on us if we complied with him, so we did. They both emptied their pockets, and put everything on the table. He called our parents, and soon thereafter, the police showed up. We were all told we were being arrested, read our rights, and then the police asked if we had anything to tell him. My friends told me to talk to him since I didn't do anything wrong, so I did.
I told him that I didn't know they were going to shoplift when we walked into the store. My friend recently became a waitress a few weeks ago, and i thought she was intending on buying everything. I put a few things into the cart I thought she was going to end up paying for. I never opened or ripped open any packaging, nor put anything into either of my friends' bags.
The detective then told the police that he saw me open packaging, and that he saw me put things into my friends' bags, which isn't true.

