Detective Took My Motorola MTX Radio Prgmd. To My Local Sheriff's Office.......?

[Philip]

Hi,I Live In Florida and im 17.i want to be a deputy when i get older so im intrested in law enforc. well In Jan 2009 i bought a Motorola MTX8000 radio on ebay which is the same the sheriff's deputies carry out here. well i had it programmed ( 800 MHZ Trunking) to the local sheriff's office by a guy in north carolina and told the guy that programmed it to only program it to recieve not to transmit so i could only be able to listen and have it like a scanner.


Well i never tryed to key up on the radio since i thought you couldnt talk on it since i told the guy to program it..

well around FEB 2009 i went into a pawn shop to make a payment on a item and there happend to be a detective in there..i had the radio in my back pocket..that was the first time i had carried it in public..which was obviously a bad move!!...

well once i came out the detective asked to talk to me and i agreed..so we walked to his car and he asked to see the radio and i gave it to him. he looked at it and keyed up and called out his Radio ID number and dispatch responded back with his Radio Id...well i heard dispatch say they were looking for that radio because it had keyed up on the radio system several times. ( Which i didnt know and i never did it so it must have been when i carried it in my back pocket when i was at home.)

so anyways he said he was not gonna give me the radio back and it would be up to the explorer leader if i got my radio back.( I was a explorer with the sheriffs office at the time)..and he gave me his card and left...

well once i got home my explorer leader came to my house and said there was gonna be a investigation and i was gonna be suspended from the explorer post till the investigation was over and that i could be criminally charged for this. But she said the case would be handed to detectives and i would hear from them.

well i never heard from them and its now October 2009 and still nothing..No detective ever visited me or called me and i lost the detectives card so i cant call him...and i was never given a case number...

So what should i do?
what do you think about this situation?....
let me know what you think the outcome might be...

thanks

 

[Unregistered]

Well, thats what cops do. You should have never agreed to talk to the cop, you should never take to a cop, never ever.

This is what I think happened. They took the radio and do not plan on giving it back to you, so you never interfer with their frequency agian. They think they scared you and do not plan on giving the radio back to you.

 

[Unregistered]

"...they were looking for that radio because it had keyed up on the radio system several times. ( Which i didnt know and i never did it so it must have..."

Please you mean to tell me that you never once had that big PTT button staring at you and never pressed it?

According to the statement above, you were well aware of. It must have keyed up on it's own!

You know, if it were a passport radio it would send an affiliation packet to the system. However, in this case, you're saying it keyed up to talk and sent MDC data to the console.
That could have never happened IF IT WAS PROGRAMMED AS RECEIVE ONLY.

The 'guy' who programmed it is the one deemed liable here, especially because you're a minor. Now, if you gave the guy some BS about 'well I'm a junior cop in cop camp', then you're back on the hook.

Think before you act, and not after the word.