buying a found item and attempting to return it to the rightful owner is a crime?
The minute he paid for it, he committed a crime... so that's one thing right there -- right off the bat... before he even says "boo!"...
Then the next thing is -- if the owner requests the property back (having found out that this guy has it, which wasn't too hard since he wrote a big article about it ... LOL ...) -- then if he doesn't return it upon their request (which they did request it back from him) -- then that guy would have committed another crime... and fortunately he didn't commit another crime in that instance.
However, it's enough to get him in the slammer that he committed the first crime, right off the bat... :-)
See Post #184 ...
Don’t lose focus, either. The rightful “owner” is the guy who left it at the bar, not the corporation he works for . . . some people just don’t get it.