Ok - I haven't ever posted here, and since I have never been in trouble this whole situation is a bit new to me. A little about what is going on.
I recently lost a job due to some serious complications with my pregnancy that landed me in the hospital for 2 weeks so I was having a hard time making ends meet. (Reads - couldn't pay my rent) So I naturally asked the people closest to me for help. They came down, brought me the money to pay my rent, as well as some of my things that were sent to thier home because the person had no way to contact me to send it directly to me. They live out of state. These weren't strangers to me, they were people that were like family to me, actually one was related to me, my sister and a lady i have always felt like a mother to me.
Ok - long story short I was working at a new job by the time they come down, so I gave my sister the key to my place and told her she could spend the day there until I got off work at 3. While she was there, she went through some of my roommates things in the garage and stole two older cameras. (We are talking AT LEAST 5-6 years old each). She put them in the box of stuff she was giving me, and since I am not a camera person, I barely even take pictures of my kids is how little I care about cameras. I had no idea they were stolen because even according to my roommate you would have had to really go through some stuff in the garage to find these cameras. And I never used the garage because my car is too long for it.
Well I take the stuff to my ex husband to ask what he thinks I should do with it (this is before I knew it was stolen) he looks at it and he doesn't trust my family and rightfully so, therefore he contacted my roommate and found out they were hers. And then he told me about it.
Well as soon as he told me, I contacted my roommate to explain everything myself. Initially I had figured that it was the "family friend" who I considered a second mother, because I had no idea my sister and a blood relative would do something like this to me. Well I ended up getting charged with stealing the camreas and have to go to court. Now as far as I know, my roommate has gotten the cameras back. Obviously I do not live there any longer. But it's my understanding that she does. Or at the very least the police have them.
I have a conversation that I had online with my sister in regards to what she has done, how far will that go in helping me prove that I had nothing to do with the theft of these things? I try to be very honest, VERY VERY honest, and I will do anything for anyone, and I just need some advice on what to do. Because my roommate is claiming the items are worth $1000-$10000, however from what I'm told, the cameras aren't even worth $50 combined.
I am wondering if I will have to turn my sister in, or what? Because I don't know exactly where she lives. I know its a hotel and the city but other than that I don't know. And the other lady, I really don't know. I know what city but otherwise no idea.

