Headscratchers / Timon & Pumbaa

• In the episode "Yosemite Remedy", Timon and Pumbaa's suitcase filled with valuables gets stolen by a raccoon thief. Later the vulture police arrest him, and the raccoon insists, "I didn't steal it, I found it." Ultimately, the raccoon is allowed to go free because of a technicality that Timon and Pumbaa never actually "witnessed" him taking their suitcase and thus can't prove he stole it. However, shouldn't the fact that the raccoon said "I found it" be an admission that he definitely took it?
  • Without definite proof that the raccoon was the original thief, an argument could be made that the suitcase was stolen by someone else who subsequently lost it somewhere where it could be found by the raccoon.