2 nights ago me and my friends went down to an electronic store in sacramento county. We both stole an mp3 player valued at $60 each. the same night we went to the same store but in placer county. there we both stole the $80 version of the mp3 player. walked out both times completely clean. also i am 18 and he is 17
we realized later that night that the headphones and usb connections for all specific for that brand. we went back the next day to the placer county store. found the empty boxes from the previous night and emptied them of the parts we needed. as soon as we left the store we were cuffed by security and put in a room. we told them the whole story about how we went to both stores and got the mp3 players. they were nice enough to go to my car and get the mp3 players from my car and make it look like we walked in with the mp3 players and they caught us with all of them on us. the reasoning for this is so the cops would have no reason to search my car.also he already added up the values of the items and its well under $400. the security guards also told us they would charg us with one account of petty theft and not 2
the cops pull up and me and my friend already decided to tell the truth because thats the best way to have our stories match up. he starts driving and pulls up to my car. runs the plates and finds out there clean. goes and searches the car. i told him about alcohol in the trunk and he said its no problem he's just going to get rid of it. thats what he did and then he remembers my friends a minor and has his mom come pick him up.
they take me down to the station and put me in a cell for 5 minutes. they get me out and start asking me about text messages on my phone, bragging to my friends about how i got away with it the night before. I also had a stolen memory card in the phone so he decides to keep my phone. they search me again. give me my citation and a court date. take my picture, prints and let me walk out the door. I had my friends come pick me up. my friends mom already let my mom know so she as pretty mad and Im waiting for her to get home today to get my lecture.
IN A SHORT STORY:
-Stole 2 mp3 players and a memory card, 1 mp3 player from each store. set as just one petty theft charge
-have a court date, listed as a 488 petty theft and as a misdemeanor
- WHAT should i do? would do anything to get it off my record. no priors or anything my whole life and I dont want this following me. please let me know if you have any kind of advice to get this off my record or get it reduced to a smaller charge

