another, "do I have a chance"?

[flyboy07]

I'm new to this site but I have found a lot of helpful information. I will try and give you all a little overview of myself and please let me know whether or not I have a chance!

I will have a 4 year degree by December of 2011, with a 200 hour internship with a local agency, and also have MN Skills academy completed at the end of this summer. I work at a community correctional facility and used to be a reserve for a county sheriffs department for little less the 2 years.

Here is the problem..

When I was working for my uncle when I was 16 or 17 (21 now) we were in someones house doing drywalling/painting. My cousin noticed that the house was really messy and figured that the home owners wouldn't notice the Ipod and gift card missing from one of the shelves. He convinced me to take them.. needless to say they noticed.. The police were never notified, I apologized to the home owner, compensated for the stolen merchandise and also reimbursed him for his time. (That shows good faith that I tried to right things, right?) That would be an undected crime that I would have to report right? No cops were ever told about it. I was a minor and stupid, it was before I thought about being a cop.

Just last year when I was 20 I was working as a sheriff reserve going on two years. (I LOVED IT!) I had made frequent stops at my cousins house (off duty) just to say hi, because he was family, unfortunately I had left a document from the reserve unit laying on his table. (it was in a bag of mine and must have came out with other papers) I was unaware that he was taking part in burglary and theft.. Someone had turned him in and his house was searched which turned up stolen property as well as my reserve paperwork. The police believed I was involved somehow because my paperwork was there. They called me but I was hours away at school, I told them that I would have no problems talking to them as long as I had some sort of council (because thats what I have always been told to do through my education) I left them a call back number and stated that if they needed anything else to please call me. I haven't heard from them since! They terminated me from the reserves under, "Possible implications into a criminal matter". My cousin was facing 5 years prison time, but the investigators said that if he told them I was involved they would lower his sentence, he took the deal and told them I was involved.. He got his lowered sentence and they never contacted me.. I didn't know the activity he was taking part in nor did I take part in it myself. The whole issue has torn my family apart and so I assume some family members may not think highly of each other anymore..

I have never done a single drug in my entire life and I have no alcohol charges. I have never been charged or convicted of any crime, just one speeding ticket and a curfew ticket over homecoming week when I was 16.

If I disclose all of this during my BI, do I have a chance of achieving my dream as a cop

[mcsap]

The implications of your cousin , along with your dismissal look very bleak for you. You waited to long to do much of anything now. I guess you could apply and try to explain but I hope you have a 2nd major to fall back on.

[mcsap]

Please dont cross post.