Stolen phone... I week or so back I bought a brand new Samsung SIII on craigslist, met up in person bought it, all good. Today 2 RCMP officers showed up at my house, but no one was home. Left a card which I called to find out that the phone was a stolen one, What kind of trouble am I facing. |
If u can prove you bought it off of CL, probably nothing. |
Show the proof like email exchanges or text messages with the seller. If that all checks out, they will probably confiscate the phone and you will be out what ever you paid for the stolen phone. |
No matter what you believed or were told when you bought it, you don't get to keep it. Posession of stolen property. Would be good for you to do everything to help them catch the thief so he doesn't rip off anyone else He ripped you and the owner of the phone off and he deliberately lied and screwed you over, knowing he was doing it. Need any more incentive to help them? |
say u sold it. Then sell it on ebay |
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Must have been a major crime for them to pursue the phone like they are. Super choked at my self because I noted their license plate but deleted it a week ago. |
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You would risk a criminal offence over a phone?! At the end of the day, its only money. A criminal record, however, will follow you forever. |
wow do cops actually spend their time on this? |
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Had an incident a couple of months ago where a guy stole another guys phone. Victim calls his phone and talks to perp who stole it. Perp makes up story how he just bought it from a guy. Victim really wants phone back as it had pics of his new born daughter on it. Perp offers to sell it back to victim. Victim agrees to meet up with perp, and calls police ahead of time. They meet up at a store I was working at and as they exit perp sees police car and starts running back into the store, I see officer run in after him and just give up as he lost him right away. I chase after perp who runs out an emergency exit. Catch up to him, he threatens me, hits me in the head. I then tackle him and hand him over to the cops. He now faces PSP, Assault, and Uttering threats charges. |
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This seems odd..I have bought Phones of Craigslist before.. When i meet the seller, i test my sim card, if it works i leave the SIM card in the phone.. at this point the phone might be on a different network. how are they tracking it with the Ability to locate the guys house.. seems odd.. Yes i realize that the Phone has the IMEI number etc.. but if your have switched to a different carrier seems to me it would be pretty hard to pursue. I would think there is more to this story.. |
Got off the phone with them today, apparently it was a phone store robbery, when I tested the phone with my sim the imei number was flagged to my account which took them straight to my billing address. I'm so choked at my self for deleting the license plate numver |
^ makes sense now |
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god dang! |
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the 'find my iphone' has helped me a few times find my phone. |
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Possession of stolen property under $5,000 = hybrid meaning it can be tried as a summary or indictable conviction. Punishment of PSP under $5,000 = [Summary: 6 months jail time / $5,000 fine] -OR- [Indictable: 2 years in jail] Why the fuck would you suggest he commit a CRIMINAL offence over $520? :fulloffuck: Quote:
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Not sure if this would have helped, but my buddy asked the seller of the phone to meet him at a store so that he could have the store check to see if it was legit. Seller met him there and once the store said the phone was all good my buddy handed him the cash. |
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