Hi,
My wife worked in a retail store and was accused of steal $100 from her register 2 weeks before.
The loss prevention manager pulled her into the office and interagated her for 3 hours trying to make her confess.
Being she didn't steal anything and there has been thousands missing over the past month, so much so that they have even been looking under counters and lifting up registers looking for it. (it's someone the the cash office stealing most people are thinking).
Anyways..after the 3 hours of trying to make her confess and telling her she would not goto jail and could even shop in the store after all this, They called the local police and he showed up and told her "If you don't sign that paper saying you stole the money I'm taking you jail and you can sit there all weekend and they can sort it out on monday and then they will send you to prison for a year".
Is this something a police officer can say to someone?
We are getting a lawyer to sue the store for trying to pinthis on her.
and possablly suing the loss prevention for him allowing the officer to say what he did being it goes against Walmarts own policy that states
"An associate cannot be forced, nor is he/she required to sign or fill out the "statement of addmision to theft" form. The associate may be asked to do so ,and if they volutarily agree, it must be done in the presence of two witneesses."
I would say that 3 hours of being yelled at and verbaly abused and then to have a cop say he was sending her to prison for a year.the store already told her they were only making her pay them $10 a month for a year.
Yes she did sign it..we have a 8 month old baby we have to worry about, and i'm sure that all that was on her mind while the officer was talking a year prison.
your thoughts please.
My wife worked in a retail store and was accused of steal $100 from her register 2 weeks before.
The loss prevention manager pulled her into the office and interagated her for 3 hours trying to make her confess.
Being she didn't steal anything and there has been thousands missing over the past month, so much so that they have even been looking under counters and lifting up registers looking for it. (it's someone the the cash office stealing most people are thinking).
Anyways..after the 3 hours of trying to make her confess and telling her she would not goto jail and could even shop in the store after all this, They called the local police and he showed up and told her "If you don't sign that paper saying you stole the money I'm taking you jail and you can sit there all weekend and they can sort it out on monday and then they will send you to prison for a year".
Is this something a police officer can say to someone?
We are getting a lawyer to sue the store for trying to pinthis on her.
and possablly suing the loss prevention for him allowing the officer to say what he did being it goes against Walmarts own policy that states
"An associate cannot be forced, nor is he/she required to sign or fill out the "statement of addmision to theft" form. The associate may be asked to do so ,and if they volutarily agree, it must be done in the presence of two witneesses."
I would say that 3 hours of being yelled at and verbaly abused and then to have a cop say he was sending her to prison for a year.the store already told her they were only making her pay them $10 a month for a year.
Yes she did sign it..we have a 8 month old baby we have to worry about, and i'm sure that all that was on her mind while the officer was talking a year prison.
your thoughts please.
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