Posted by JohnInMi Sorry to hear about the arrest, but great photos nonetheless. Curious: Did they charge you w/ something potentially serious, then offer you a plea deal ? I've been exploring off and on since I was a young teen and have been in that train station a couple of times in years past. These days, you could say I'm "semi retired."
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They charged me with "EWOP" ("Entering without permission," Detroit's equivalent of "trespassing").
At first they tried to say they were going to charge us (I was with 2 comrades) with "breaking and entering" and all kinds of other garbage, but since we broke nothing and just used our wits and some climbing skills to get in (without damaging anything), all they had was "EWOP."
I paid around $150 bail and then got a $250 fine plus a 30-day suspended jail sentence. The judge said that as long as we didn't get into trouble in Detroit again within I think 90 days of the sentence, it would also disappear from our records.
It was no big deal, honestly. Just hurt my wallet a bit.