When another one of my friends got in BIG trouble

My friend was working for this construction company during the summer and I think all that happened to him wouldn't have if he just hung out with different people. There are a lot of drugees and people who are ex-cons that work at construction places or other jobs like that because everybody else doesn't want to hire an ex-con so there were plenty of people there that you could easily get in trouble with if you were just around them. Well my friend was pretty good friends with a guy that worked there after he worked there for a few months and he started to hang out with him after work. One time my friend drove him to the gas station and he went in and stole a whole bunch of stuff. He had armfulls of stuff and he just filled up my friends car with the stuff. This guy that my friend was hanging out with also had access to guns and things like that so my friend bought a gun from him and two pairs of brass knuckles. He kept everything in his car at all times and that was probably a very stupid desicion because a cop caught onto their robberies and tracked my friend down one day. The cop searched the car and he found the gun and the two pairs of brass knuckles. He also found a BUNCH of stolen merchandise. My friend went to jail at that point for about 4 months. He just got out about a month ago. I know he's not a bad kid...he just met and hung out with the wrong people. The guy my friend got all the stuff from ran away and went to alaska and no one ever caught him. Thats how you know when you have real friends. Friends wouldn't have ran away like that, putting the blame all on you. When you have a good friend you know that they'd always stand by you no matter what the situation is. If that means taking the fall with them, so be it