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Police: Guy who reported armed robbery is himself arrested when it turns out his stolen stuff was itself stolen

Boston Police report a Plymouth man who helped lead them to the guy who held him up at gunpoint near the Forest Hills T stop yesterday wound up arrested himself when it turned out the stuff he'd had stolen was itself stolen property.

First, police say, Gregory B. Bray, 41, of Dorchester, was arrested at the T stop on armed-robbery charges after he used a pellet gun to stick up Joel Diaz-Sanchez, 32, of Plymouth on South Street around 1 p.m. Police say investigating officers found Diaz-Sanchez's stuff in a trash barrel at the station:

Officers recovered from those bags a number of items ranging from Calvin Klein shirts to Armani wallets to Victoria Secret perfumes totaling in excess of $1,000.00. The caller was then asked if he had receipts for the items in the bag but could produce none.

Police say Diaz-Sanchez was then arrested on a charge of receiving stolen property.

Both innocent, etc.

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Is there some requirement that you carry receipts around with you at all times for anything you have in your bag? Because while I might not carry $1,000 worth of stuff around , I could imagine having a new i-something in my bag that I'd bought as a gift, but not having the receipt with me at the time.

There must be some other reason they took him in or thought it was stolen goods that's not mentioned, because "not being able to produce receipts doesn't seem like a legitimate reason to arrest someone.

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A receipt can be a piece of paper - but it can also be a charge card record.

I agree with you that there must be more to this, however. "Person having things we think this person shouldn't have" isn't sufficient - "person fitting description of shoplifter caught on video at stores lacking these goods" might be a better indicator of guilt.

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The Boston police deal with shoplifting from downtown stores for a living. I think we can trust that they know how to deal with it.

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Oh you!

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Because their lives are dedicated to gettin you.

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Never makes mistakes!

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