If you knowingly purchase stolen goods, doesn't that make you a thief too?

Bungle

Yes and just as bad as the thief who stole them because you are buying goods that cannot ever rightly belong to you and you are purchasing them usually cheaper so benefiting through someone elses unfortunate loss and you are financing the thief's actions.

Gianna M

No just a criminal.
Come on, you knew it was wrong before you did it!

gone

Yes, it makes you an accessory to the crime.

sergbelxx

ethically yesl

legally yes !

m c

Yes, makes you not only a criminal, but knowingly purchase stolen goods, you bet it is a crime and just as bad as the theft who stole it in the first place. To save your own butt, you need to report this to local police and let them handle it, could keep you from spending major time in jail later.

kitty fresh & hissin' crew

Pretty much.

joeanonymous

In Canada you could be charged with a separate offence specifically designed for this situation:

"Being in possession of property obtained by crime"

You have to know it is stolen or should have known it was stolen (IE. buying a brand new TV still in the box from a guy in a parking lot for less than 1/2 of its value).

Aussie1

It sure does make you as bad as the person that steals the items.

Sherlock H

yes

space_man_stitch

Yes it does.

Even IF, you did not know you could be in trouble and spend Months to Years in court trying to prove yourself innocent.

IF you did know the item was stolen , YOU now have possession of the "stolen goods" and the Real thief may get off scott free while YOU spend time in jail for "POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTY".

Your caught with the stolen goods, While the original thief goes free.

Tom M

It's called "Receiving Stolen Property". Yes, it is a crime and yes, you are aiding and abetting a thief.

*****

Indeed it does.A moral person does NOT buy stolen goods.

dh1977

Yes. If you knowingly purchase stolen goods, you can be charged with receiving stolen property and/or possession of stolen property. Depending on specifically what the property is, you can be charged with additional criminal counts as well. For example, if you purchased stolen credit cards, you can be charged with counts related to identity theft. The discounted price of whatever stolen goods you want to buy are not worth the risk of buying them.

Ruchjat K

The purchaser of the stolen goods will be caught by the police as a master mind of the stealing or as the receiver of the stolen goods and he/she will be punished not as a thief but as a coopera
tor of the stealing.Usually he/she will get a harder punishment.

watchman_1900

No. the charge is RSP- receiving stolen property, or possession of stolen property

gorglin

No, but they can charge you with dealing in stolen goods....

Princess

only if you get caught. dont grow a conscious now. at least you didnt steal it directly. people do it all the time and as far as im concerned stores dont mind robbing us with outrageous prices. so why should you care.

stormer_xxi

Not exactly, but it does make you guilty of a crime.

Linda Murphy

If a person loaned money to someone to purchase an ATV, and within 5 weeks they turned around and sold it to someone, even before the first payment was made, and no further payments have been made, and they did not tell us they sold the machine, can the ATV be considered as being stolen goods because the purchaser sold it before paying the money owed to the person who loaned them the money in the first place?

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