While waiting for the stolen tag to be removed, you have a fewoptions for keeping the item safe without carrying it on your person:
By far the best option is leaving stolen items on your horse since it'salso a portable inventory you can access to check on the progress ofthose stolen tags whenever you want. Once the stolen tag has beenremoved from an item, it's just like any other found item, and there'snothing else you need to worry about.