Articles Posted in Theft Crimes

Back in February of this year police were called for a report of a large scale shoplifting operation at a major department store. When they got to the scene loss prevention had detained a woman who had concealed and placed into her car nearly $10,000.00 worth of goods. The officers reviewed security footage of the…

Our client was the business manager/accountant for a small business in a Boston suburb. The owner of the business suspected him of stealing large sums of money. She went to the police department and met with a detective who assisted her in successfully applying for a criminal complaint. The man was charged with larceny over…

Nearly a year ago, our client, an independent truck driver, came to Massachusetts to pick up a load of goods. When he arrived at the designated location he was met by police officers. Apparently, the goods he was to pick up were purchased with a stolen credit card. The police then searched the truck and…

The defendant is an entrepreneur involved in several lucrative businesses. One of these businesses involves the purchase and resale of commercial fencing. The defendant would buy surplus fencing on the internet or from wholesalers, store them and resell at opportune times depending on market demand. A competitor was searching the internet for similar products. He…

Our client is a graduate at a top rated university working towards his PhD. On May 31, 2021 he and a friend were in Boston near a construction site. They were celebrating being vaccinated and being able to go out more freely. The men had been drinking. They decided to enter the construction to climb…

Our client is a college student. In February of 2021, around 3:00 a.m. he was seen walking down a street looking into car windows. The person making the observation followed him and called the police. The witness saw the man enter a pickup truck and remove several items and then discard them in a trash…

In April of 2020 police in an Eastern Massachusetts city responded to a call for a larceny. They met with the victim, a local truck driver who routinely delivers cigarettes to convenience stores. While inside a store making a delivery the driver’s truck padlocks were broken and cases of cigarettes were stolen from the inside…

The defendant is a software engineer in his early twenties. In late December he was in an argument with a former girlfriend. She asked him to leave her house. He did. He then went out to several bars, got drunk and in the early morning hours went back to her home. He made a forced…

In 2010 the defendant was enrolled in law school in Massachusetts. He got engaged to a woman and wrote a check for thousands of dollars to a local jeweler to pay for the engagement ring. The check never cleared. The defendant left Massachusetts and continued law school in another state. The deficient check prompted the…

The defendant is a college student from out of state. She was involved in a sophisticated theft operation involving cell phones. She and others had accessed a database revealing the names and cell phone numbers of subscribers to a particular cell phone company. The defendant was also able to access their account numbers and other…