Strongbox <strongbox@no.mail> wrote:

> I work in law enforcement. General Lee is correct. The OP is
> screwed.

General Ignorance is seldom correct and the OP isn't screwed, he's not
the one with the phone who's ex-girlfriend filed the stolen phone
report, all the OP has to worry about is buying a phone somewhere.

> No cop is going to waste his time on a stolen item valued at a
> couple hundred dollars.

You believe the police won't follow up a complaint of filing a false
report? They'd become an ex-cop here very quickly.

> The OP's best option is small claims court, but without the
> supporting paperwork no magistrate will rule in his favor.

He'll have the supporting paperwork, of course. He'll have to get it
but there IS a paper trail unless he bought the phone for cash from a
guy in a dark alley.

> Its best to pick your girlfriends cautiously.

People never do, do they?




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