I need help! Cop stole my camera!?

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Here's the story:
I bought a gopro camera NEW from best buy. 6 months later I let my friend borrow it and he gets pulled over. He gets a DUI and speeding tickets and goes to jail for past things. So I find out the cop took my camera from the car, which I don't think he was ever supposed to do. Anyway, the cop calls me and says i have your camera if you bring the receipt to the station it's yours. I bring the receipt and he says there's no serial number on it so I can't give it to you. I can't get a serial number of it from best buy either which is bull. AND he said mainly because it's coming up stolen out west.. Which I know is complete bs because he just wants it as evidence to screw my friends and cause I bought it new from best buy. I was very respectful about the whole thing and eventually left because it was going nowhere in my favor, and I wasn't gonna kick and scream about my rights yet.

Now, I don't know wether to threaten him to court( if I do, what should I say and what rights did he break of mine?) or if I should try and contact a superior or something... He's a local corrupt officer.

Also, I know it was my camera I held it in my hands and identified it. And when my friend got arrested he told the cop it was mine.. And his dad did.. And my parents went to the police station to try and see if they could get it and the cop didn't give it to them..

I don't know if I'm leaving anything out but if you have any questions of my story just ask.

The past stuff my friend got in trouble for wasn't murder or anything serious enough where they could take the camera.

SOMEONE THAT KNOWS THE LAW PLEASE HELP!

K · Accepted Answer

Actually, the police officer had every right to take your camera; it was evidence, as was everything in that car when your criminal scumbag friend got busted.

He also has every right to refuse giving it to you until he has definite proof that it is YOUR GoPro - for all he knows you're another person who bought a GoPro and is now presenting that other camera's receipt so that you can get two GoPros for the price of one. (Does happen!)

He is NOT a corrupt cop, he is trying to protect someone's property. If he'd handed it off to just any old person who came in and said "Oh that's my GoPro" you'd be screaming blue bloody murder, wouldn't you?

I find it REALLY hard to believe that a product as expensive as a GoPro wouldn't have some kind of identifying serial number on it.

Or maybe you could just use this as a REALLY EXPENSIVE lesson in choosing your friends more carefully and NOT hanging out with criminal scumbag losers.

"he just wants it as evidence to screw my friends "

Oh? Have you been recording criminal activities on your GoPro? I'm glad he has it, then.

impaler19120 · Answer

The officer did NOT STEAL your camera.

He confiscated a camera during the course of an arrest, which is perfectly legal for him to do. It is not "corrupt".

He is willing to return it to whomever can show legitimate proff of ownership.  You obviously cannot. That means that the camera will sit in the Police evidence room forever.

The person who owes you a new camera is your idiot friend who got arrested in the first place. Not the police department.

Dogmaad · Answer

Your story is a fake one.

Anyone with common sense will know, if you buy a camera from a retail store new, you will have the serial number on the receipt. You will have the paper work that came along with it.

Anonymous · Answer

Gopro Serial Number

Anonymous · Answer

Kiss your oops some body else's camera good bye!
Sounds like you bought stolen property!
Oh joy your going to get the entire police department kicking your butt if you start SCREAMING CORRUPTION WITH NO PROOF!
Dodgy purchase and dodgy friend means NO CAMERA!

I need help! Cop stole my camera!?

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