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Man Charged With Selling Stolen Jewelry
June 24, 2012
A Cantonment man was jailed after allegedly selling jewelry stolen in Brewton to a Pensacola gold buyer.
Jimmy L. Johnson, age 42 of Pine Top Lane, was charged with felony dealing in stolen property and giving false information to a secondhand dealer, both felonies.
Brewton Police had developed Johnson as a suspect in the theft of jewelry from a home on Douglas Avenue in January 2012, including several gold items and wedding ring. On the day of the theft, Johnson allegedly sold the items for $905 to The Gold Exchange in Pensacola.
The victim positively identified the items and paid The Gold Exchange $905 to reclaim her property, and warrant was issued for Johnson’s arrest.
Johnson was booked into the Escambia County Jail on the outstanding warrant and later released on a $20,000 bond.
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10 Responses to “Man Charged With Selling Stolen Jewelry”
jimmy what the hell happened to you….
“giving false information to a secondhand dealer”
this law needs to be changed as there is no protection for a person who unknowingly buys stolen items (I.e. from the shopper, or thrifty nickel, or even from NE.COM classifieds) you can ask if it is stolen, but guess what, thiefs lie!
a person found to be in possession of stolen items can be charged and depending on the DA often they are.
I know this from experience! it is a waste of money and court time to defend yourself for a crime you did not commit. It is not like I stole the items, they caught the thief, he told police he sold the items to me. He told me they were his!
dealers (businesses) are afforded more protection under the law. we citizens get screwed.
The Florida law that requires the “dealer” be compensated for the item is just.
Now, if the “dealer” were to buy merchandise from someone and not require I.D. or not report the transactions, all bets are off. Receiving stolen property charges would apply. But getting the criminal off the street and the victim receiving their items are more important. The criminal can be required by the judge to re-pay the victim as part of his sentence if found guilty.
How can you “suspect” as well as “know for a fact”? Would it not be an either or situation? Or was this merely a non factual and subsequently judgmental statement?
The law should be such that the criminal has to pay the pawn shop and the victim gets their items back! I suspect and know for a fact that most times the criminal never pays when released!
I may not like it, but they may never have got their stuff, if he had went and sold it on the street… and may have been handed dowm from a deseased parent and irriplacable? In this case the Law worked to get their stuff back and positive ID for a conviction…
i had a friend that bought something stolen, not knowing it was stolen and the law charged him with buying/ recieving stolen property. how is this any different. my friend did not get his money back just a court date
The Pawn Shops had a big lobbing effort in Tallahassee and the legisleture passed the bill to not require them to just give stolen property back. So they can knowling buy stolen property and not lose a cent, doesn’t sound quite right. The Gold and Pawn buyers should be charged with buying stolen property.
The defendant once found guilty will have to pay the monies owed, but almost everytime is in payments and takes awhile to ever get them to pay it in full!
I see that the victim had to pay to get their own property back.
Will they be reimbersed later by someone?
If so, by whom?
If not,doesn’t that just seem screwed up!