Posted by Joyce on 3/19/04

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I have been arrested for petit theft at a K-Mart store
after purchasing (and paying for) several items, one of
which turned out to have a different product in the box -
and with the price about twice as much as the one I
actually bought (about $11 more). However, the officer
making an arrest wrote in the report, from the words of the
store manager, that I have been arrested after I left the
store with the concealed item without paying for it at all.
The store manager took away and kept the receipt and
refunded the moneys that I paid for all the goods, and
after I asked for the receipt back, the officer said that
it's not open for negotiations, handcuffed me and took out
to the police car. However, they took two polaroids of the
item from the box AND the box itself, so maybe this can
indirectly help me? Can the case be dismissed based on the
gross misrepresentation of the facts in the police report?
Is there anything that I can do to help myself in this case?
Thank you for any information you can provide.

False Police Report - Can the case be dismissed?, 3/19/04, by Joyce.

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