first to give you my criminal background information: I was involved in a retail theft incident with Macey's in December of 2006, plead guilty (didn't know any better at this point in time) was charged 300.00 by the court, 675.00 from macys (to help cover loss prevention, not the actual amount of the items stolen), and put on a plea of obeyence for one year.
I made an unwise decision earlier today at Khols. I browesed the store, picked up items from the mens section and womans section, walked into and unattended dressing room which was empty when i walked in. I removed the tags on the clothes i wanted to walk out with and shoved them in the pants i had planned to leave there (stupid move). took the other clothes off their hangers, put most of them on under my coat and threw about three sweaters in my bag and left the rest of the clothes and the empty hangers in the dressing room.
I walked out of the dressing room walked up to one of the employees looked her in the eyes and asked her where i would go to put a dress on hold (was holding it) then i left the dress on one of the racks like i had changed my mind and left the building.
Followed by one woman wearing a maceys name tag holding a two way radio and one HUGE polenesian man in normal street clothes. he said, "we are going to need you to step back into the store"
I quickly sized up the situation, thought over my rights and said, "no, i am going to be late for work, i have to go"
He briskly followed me to my car, by then had my lisence plate number. He said "we can either do this the easy way, or the hard way, if you leave now i will get you for buglary. If you stay and come inside, we can take care of this real quick and we can just give you a tresspass"
I knew they would hit me with as much as they could at that point because of the urgency he had in his voice. I felt my only option was to flee the parking lot to rid the evidence, hopefully the case would not have enough evidence since the actuall items concealed in my bag were never seen by eye witness due to the fact it was in a dressing room.
I continued to try and open my car door, the man promptly got between me and the entrance to my car and said one last time,"mam, this is a bad idea, how old are you? we need you to come inside now!"
The lady that was watching the whole event closely also spoke up and said, "we got it all on camera, we want our merchandise back"
I said once again, "I"m late for work, leave me alone"
the large man still not moving from my car door said "if you leave we will get the PD involved and we can get you for burglary, you are making the harder choice now"
I somehow managed to squeeze in through a small crack in my door and him so boldly holding it, he would not let me close my door so i started my engine and pulled forward to force it shut.
drove home with no stop, i saw two state troopers on my way.
now i'm wondering, what have i gotten myself into and what should i do from here?
i would appreciate any legall advice you have for me and i'm going to look for a adequate lawyer as well to try to keep me from any suggnificant harm.

