Shoplifting Charges Against Non-Citizen Dismissed After Clerk Magistrate Hearing

The defendant is a non-citizen who moved to Massachusetts to attend school on a student visa. A few weeks ago the defendant was shopping at a local Target store. The defendant processed some merchandise at a self-service checkout kiosk. However much of the goods in the shopping cart were not scanned or paid for at the checkout. Loss prevention watched the defendant’s actions and stopped her as she attempted to exit the store with the goods. She confessed to the loss prevention personnel and local police. A summons for a clerk magistrate hearing issued charging her with shoplifting by asportation in violation of G.L. c. 266 Section 30A. Knowing that anything short of pretrial probation or a dismissal could result in a revocation of her student visa she hired Attorney Stephen Neyman. Today, our office was able to convince the clerk magistrate not to issue the complaint.

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