Here’s a recap of steps needed to be done to rob side businesses in RDR2 without getting a bounty. If you avoid these two things you successfully robbed a side shop. You are still in the area? They see you and you get a bounty. If you were unmasked they will identify you and create bounty. Sheriffs come to the scene of the crime to investigate. You do something bad, a witness sees you. When committing a crime there’s a set of things that happen.