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Originally Posted by Barnes
One man's reasonable attempt is another man's lame ass excuse. The property was not his and he sold it. In California, you cannot sell property you have found until after a considerable amount of time has passed.
And considering the person who found this accessed Gray Powell's Facebook page and Twitter account and didn't contact him...
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Which is precisely why it seems like proving this as a theft seems tough. You're supposed to hold found property for a considerable amount of time in nearly every jurisdiction before you can sell it, but without knowledge/intent I don't know that you could get a conviction. A base element of any theft crime is the mental state. It's not going to be easy to prove that existed. Not impossible, but I don't really expect theft charges to come from this.
Do the police even know who the person that found the phone is? Any information they got from the search of the editors home is likely to be barred for the purpose of identifying the source, but they could still find that person through the bar I assume. Just haven't heard anything about this individual.