Shoplifting, Larceny, Robbery, Theft Id Theft or Not?

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freedom85

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Hello everyone, A little bit about myself my Names Brandon I'm 22 years old and my fiance is 19 we have a baby on the way and things are going good so far. Basically sometime last week on 10/19/07 which was on a Friday we noticed that my fiances wallet was missing. She had everything you could think of in it from her State Id with address and DOB on it to her SSN card. Her State Medical card and a EBT foodstamp card. At first we figured that she might have misplaced it so we looked everywhere we had been for a few days but didn't come up with anything. So Sunday 10/21/07 we finally decided to contact the police and report it stolen. Later on that night we contacted the EBT food stamp department and found out that her food stamp card's pin number had been changed Friday morning sometime and that it was used the following day three times at two different gas station stores. So in light of the information we received Sunday night we took the liberty of going to these Gas station stores Monday morning to view there security Camera tapes. There we made a big discovery. We found out that it had actually been close friends of ours that we happen to have visited on the 18th of October just before the following day that it came up missing. So with a list from the EBT food stamp place stating the use of the Card and the Video showing who had used the card we decided to call our Local detective. So after we meet with this Detective we come to find out that He happens to know this guy sense Childhood that stole my Fiances wallet. So after giving him all the evidence he would need to look into this he trys to implie that not much can be done about it. The Guy who had stolen my Fiances wallet was already going back to Jail for a year cause of something involving credit card fraud. What surprised me and my fiance is that someone had changed my fiances pin number on her card. And to do that they would have had to call in and claim to be her using her information such as her SSN number and so forth. I mean they pretty much had everything they needed to do this. Which in my opinion I was for sure that the detective would had been able to get them for Id Theft. Cause not only was they acting like my fiance to get the pin changed but by using the card they was stealing from the state. Anyways to close this up the main thing was to get the Wallet back and everything that was in it. Which the detective helped us do. We did get her belonging back from the couple that took it. But I have another problem that has arise out of this that is very confusing. During the time this was going on. The person that took the wallet was implieing to me that nothing would happen to him much cause he personally knew the detective. So one night I decided to log on to his AOL screen name account and change his password. I realize it was stupid to do. It was mainly out of anger and I guess I felt a sense of revenge. Sense it seemed the detective wasn't going to do nothing about it at all. But I knew his Screen name password cause he had told me it before so I just went in changed it and waited about 10mins then changed it back. Well following the Day the detective attempts to turn things around and go after me now. Saying that what They did was a misdmeanor and what I did could be considered a felony cause I commited ID theft. But what is so messed up here is somoene had to call in and use my fiances personal information to even get the pin changed. When I didn't use information like that at all. And it would seem to me that someone using someone else's actually SSN number and then also stealing from the state would be worse then just a AOL password being changed. So the Detective is clearing playing favorites here. The AOL account they had wasn't a paid account either it was free so no money involved so I just basically wanted to know if I can get in trouble or if somethings not right about this to anyone else on here Thank you all.
 
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Ask to talk to a police supervisor, city council man/woman of your area, even a free consultation with a criminal lawyer…………This sounds strange and bad. Don't let it fly without digging further and don't be intimidated! You can nail them if your info is accurate and verifiable.
 
So after we meet with this Detective we come to find out that He happens to know this guy sense Childhood that stole my Fiances wallet.
How do you know this? Plus, how do you know that the fact they KNEW each other that they might be chummy?

Knowing someone and being their best bud are not the same. I "know" a lot of people, but that wouldn't keep me from arresting them.

So after giving him all the evidence he would need to look into this he trys to implie that not much can be done about it.
Depending on the correlation between the transaction and the tape, there may not be. Unless the tape and the register transaction show conclusively that these people made the transaction with your card, then it may be a matter of opinion or coincidence. I have found that very often we have to try and match a purchase with a rolled receipt tape with a video and we can ESTIMATE the time and purchase, but cannot always guarantee it. But, that would depend on how the transaction was recorded and what the clerk recalls.

The person that took the wallet was implieing to me that nothing would happen to him much cause he personally knew the detective.
We often have people throw our names down ... I was recently told be a man that he did not want me investigating his case because his accuser had often bragged of how good a friend I was with the accuser ... oddly, I am not a friend of the accuser, though our children are - and, I have arrested the accuser on two separate occasions. So, all because the suspect says they are friends does not mean that they are.

So one night I decided to log on to his AOL screen name account and change his password. I realize it was stupid to do. It was mainly out of anger and I guess I felt a sense of revenge.
Depending on the laws in your state, this could be a serious crime.

So the Detective is clearing playing favorites here.
Maybe. Maybe not.

If you feel the detective is not being impartial here, then you can complain to the detective's supervisor. Maybe that supervisor can shed some light as to why the case is hard to prove. What seems obvious to you (and most victims) is NOT always that easy to prove. What we know, intuitively, is not always what we can prove in court.

- Carl
 
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