My question involves criminal law for the state of: North Carolina
I was caught shoplifting at Barnes and Noble, they kind of know me because I used to work there years ago. No police were involved and it only happened about a week ago. I haven't gone back since. The manager on duty and I knew each other by first names. He was acting really distant the day it happened.
Can they pull employee records from 2007? My address is the same but my phone number is different... Am I just going to get a summons in the mail or something because I expected the cops to show up at my house by now.
They took the product back but I never reentered the store with them, so I never signed anything or even talked with anyone since.
Before I actually left the store I heard someone yell "Oh they're trying again!" So I wonder if someone who looks like me was trying something, because that was the first time I had been there in 3 weeks.
Another weird happening is i've been hearing things from people who don't even know me asking if I got caught. So I don't know if they're fishing for information or expecting me to come back and face the judgment. I wasn't friends outside the store with anyone. I had kind of breathed a sigh of relief until random people started asking me stuff.

