kaikingston Posts: 1, Reputation: 1 New Member   #1 Jun 2, 2011, 11:25 AM

Theft Under $5000 in Saskatchewan, 25 yrs old, outcome and process of things? I am a 25 yr old living in Saskatchewan. Yesterday I was caught shoplifting at Winners attempting to steal 2 pairs of sunglasses. This is all what happened: I went in the day before and purchased some jeans, and found these sunglasses my buddy wanted $129 a pair, I found two and had decided to come back the next day and take them. They have these sensors on them that I realized could be snipped with pliers. This is the second time I have done this. I took the sunglasses, went into the shoes section where there was no camera and threw them in my pocket. I walked around for a bit and then went into the washroom, and snipped the sensors and flushed them. As I was about to leave the washroom, I was fixing a cuff on my jeans when one of the employees came in. As I left he left almost immediately after and looked at his manager and she made some face, and all of a sudden I became paranoid. I didn't leave the store for almost an hour, tried on stuff hesitant if I should even go through with this. Thinking it was only my paranoia, I tried to leave, and immediately was stopped by a girl who saw me do the whole thing. My first reaction was to deny, and then stupidly thought I could just get in my car and leave, but within 2 mintues I was terrified and was willing to do anything to cooperate. I gave her the sunglasses and was taken into a backroom. She threw down a photo of me from two week prior, saying she had been watching me for a few weeks. Two weeks prior I found sunglasses my friend wanted stashed them in a suitcase, so that no one would buy them and I would come back and buy (or what I had now figure out, could steal them). So they initially only caught me putting them in a suitcase, which I was only doing to save them from being purchased. However, I admitted that I took a pair that day as well. Now thinking, I could have easily denied taking them, but I was panicking and scared ****less so I admitted more than I probably should have, but only wanted to cooperate as much as possible. She could tell how terrified I was and how sincere I was trying to be in absolutely everything. I signed papers understanding I was banned from the store for 10 years, that I might be charged (because Winners has that in their policy, which is uncommon in other stores), and my apology to Winners admitting what I had done. She said I was very cooperative, my apology was very good, I seemed like a decent person so that they would try and work it out as minimal as possible. The police showed up an hour later, she told him that I volunteered to write an apology to the store, and had been very cooperative. She gave him photocopies of everything and he read me my rites and cuffed me, and walked me out the store to his car out front (so humiliating, I felt like passing out). Once I was in the back, he checked my record which was clear, other than a drunk in public ticket that I had got in first year university. He asked why I did it: I said lately I was diagnosed with arthritis and had not been able to work much lately, and in turn resorted to considering and actually going through with shoplifting. I wanted to take these sunglasseses for a friend for a present. He said there are two ways it could all go down: 1. He takes me to Jail, or 2. Let me off with a warning. (it was the same amount of paper work either way, so just as easy to choose one or the other). But what was his deciding factor was that I had done it before, came prepared because I had pliers, and his final point: Was this "getting caught" enough for me to never do it again? He was leaning towards a warning because I explained I would be fired from work entirely, and that I had already been known as unreliable because of my arthritis affecting my ability to work, and that he thought I was a decent person who hadn't been in any similar trouble. He then added that if he gave me a warning, that I would cooperate and be responsible and show up to court and pay the fine (don't remember if he said "IF told to come to court, or to pay a fine"). In any case, I agreed very willingly and promised I would do anything further to make it all go easier. He let me off with a warning, uncuffed me and said: if anything happens (and he won't forget my face or name), traffic violations, drunk in the bar, anything... and we cross paths, things won't go down as smoothly. NOW: My questions are: Will he actually be sending me a fine, or a court date in the mail? Is it out of the stores hands to pay a fine and now up to the cops entirely? What is the extent of this being on my record and who is it available to? If they send me a fine, is it as easy as paying it and its over? Or, would I be given a court date and then the fine established then? If so, should I be getting some legal advice on the matter? If nothing further happens, is the extent of my punishment, banning from the store, and that if anything happens again, I will be facing more serious consequences? Can someone break down the jist of what all this means and what to plan for to ease my mind and help me understand further. Thanks.

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