Intellectual Property Law - I found my stolen property at a pawn shop,I reported it to the police, but what happens to the thieves?

I found my stolen property at a pawn shop,I reported it to the police, but what happens to the thieves?

It was a coach watch that i got for my birthday, its worth 700 dollars! For some reason I kept the recipt and I did get it sized at coach aswell and they have it all documented.I also have a warrenty on it, do you think that is enough evidence?!

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If they get caught, they probably go to jail. If they don't, lock your doors.
If the police do their job, they follow up and catch the stinking thieves. The pawn shop will have info on the ticket to redeem. If the info is accurate, they will track them down. I assume you filed a police report, if so, contact the officer that took the report and let him know where you found the stuff.
Nothing. That's the beauty of pawnshops, and that's why they're havens for criminals.
Did you tell the cops? They'll arrest the people who turned it to the pawn shop.
have they been found? then they go 2 jail, duh
let the police know, they can usually track them down. otherwise , you will still get your property back from the pawn shop
I think it would depend a lot of whether you could prove they stole it, or at least prove it was your stuff. Anyone could walk into a pawn shop and claim something was theirs, but unless you have a video record of your things, including serial numbers or receipts with serial numbers, it will be very hard to prove it's yours, much less that the people stole it from you. From the police's standpoint, the guilty person would have to have a reasonable amount of evidence against them for them to arrest them, and there would have to be sufficient evidence to convict them beyond a shadow of a doubt. If you have no proof, I would move on as it will probably just waste your time and money (if you went to court). For the future, make a video document of your higher end items including filming the serial codes.
They get arrested and go to court and the case gets thrown out.... don't you know that's justice in America.
if you have a police report sue the pawn shop the thieves work for the pawn shop think about it