So like the title says I need a bit of legal advice.

So I just moved into a house with my wife that my dad and I flipped. A REALLY good friend of mine and his g/f moved in with us. Well last night I called another "friend" over to hang out and play pool. Ive known this guy for 2 years or so. I havent talked to him in a while because he stole my friends g/f wallet while we were hangin out a couple of months ago. He payed for the wallet and money lost and things went on. I tried to trust him again and got bit in the ***.

So we were playin pool for a bit and hangin out. Then after a while he says he has to go meet up with his g/f. About 15 mins after he left i realize I cant find my phone. I KNEW I had it on the handrail next to the pool table and I didnt touch it all night. I asked everyone in the house and they said the same thing about it being on the handrail. I then looked in my wallet that was in the same spot and found 40 bux missin. So I called the guy and asked him where my phone was. He denied it. I asked him where he was because I wanted to meet up with him, he told me and i met up with him. I asked him to empty his pockets and found nothing. I KNOW he took my phone. No one else would take it. Plus it was on ring and it was not ringing anywhere in the house. So i went back home to look for my phone, still couldnt find it. So I called the police and filed a police report and asked to press charges.

Cliff notes because that is a long story-
1. "Friend" of mine took my 200 dollar phone and 40 bux
2. Called police and filed a police report.


So basically my question is what should I do? Should I continue to press charges? Is there anything else I can do?

He offered to give me his phone which is much better than mine and pay the 40 bux, but STILL denies taking it. But then I have to pay 200 to cancel my service then alot more to start a new one. All while loosing all my contacts and possibly loosing my number. Remember I only make 10 bux an hour so 40 bux is ALOT of money for me.

Sorry for the long read. And thanks in advance for any advice.

 

I would just chalk it up to a lesson learned..

Go buy a new phone and dump him like a hot potato..

Anyone who would do that is not a friend..

Obviously he took it otherwise why would he offer to pay for it..

Chasing after him is not going to get you anywhere..

He is probably a drug addict and will be found face down in the gutter some day..

Don't ever let him back into your house or your life again..

 

Yeah I have though about that. I just think he needs to learn a lesson. One day hes going to mess with someone and get shot.

 

That's what thieves do - they steal stuff.

The police aren't going to do anything.

Too bad. Like Don said: lesson learned.

 

Those type of people don't learn lessons, even when you beat them over the head with it...

They only look at how they can take advantage of someone or a situation..

 

Legal advice? Uhh, how about common sense advice:

--don't hang out with thieves

--don't ask for legal advice on a truck forum

You drinking and driving or playing with loaded guns or anything?

 

Well I'm like everyone else. So lesson learn. But if you have verizon, you can go to there web site, put in ID and password then go to your account and get some of the numbers back. It will only have the numbers, no names, so that does help. I know because I have verizon.

 

I would say chalk it up as a lesson learned, but I myself would probably go whoop his ***. Make sure ya dont swing first so you are retaliating in "self defence"

May sound harsh but guys like that (from the short description you gave us) sounds like he needs a whooping to smarten him up.

 

and he could very well be a kleptomaniac........

I had a best friend in high school who was like that....

once we went to his house for a party, started goofin around the house and found boxes of stuff in the basement that had come up missing from each of us over the past 3 years....

sweet kid, we wanted to KICK HIS BUTT....but we decided to get him the help he needed.....

unfortuanately, he did take something that was from the wrong person at the wrong time......

he was shot and killed at the age of 17........

 

"Fool me once...shame on you. Fool me twice...shame on me"!!! Not to be harsh...but...you got what you deserved!!! He must have seen something else at your place that he wanted if he offered to give you his "much more expensive" phone...and...pay the $40 when he didn't steal them.

I wonder who really owns the phone he is going to give you???

You've filed a police report...put the incident...and the low life...behind you and get on with your life!!! If you decide to give him the thumping that others have suggested...guess who will get in trouble???

 

An expensive lesson well learned. Dump him and forget this or it will eat you alive. Put it this way: $40 and a phone is pretty cheap for the lesson you learned. It is unfortunaate, but you'll be better for it.................

 

I agree with everything you said, and I agree with this the most. Not to get on your case CrazySpyder69, but what did you really expect?

I think 85e150six4mtod hit the nail on the head too. What kind of "legal" advice are you expecting to get here? This one is on you. Yes, of course, it's not right for that guy to steal, but that's irrelevant. He does it, you knew you had a history of it, and for some reason you invited him into your home with valuables out in the open. Use better judgement from now on. I don't know what else to tell you.

And no offense meant at all man, but if you make $10/hr as you said, you shouldn't own such an expensive phone. Cell phones are a luxury, not a necessity, despite the country's obsession over them.

You came here for advice; that's my advice. Best of luck to you with all this.

 

Don't waste the police's time. There is nothing they can do for you because you can't prove that your "friend" took anything. You can't tell the police that "you think" this guy stole it.

Thieves are as dirty as child molesters in my book. Neither can be reabilited. Once a thief...always a thief.

 

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The cops will not help. Believe me, unless they see a crime they dont even like making a report. The jails are full of people like this thief. Sounds like he will be there soon enough. avoid him