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Christmas Decorations Stolen From Carson Home
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$600 worth of Christmas decorations were stolen from Patricia Castenada's front yard last Friday morning. The thieves took two Snoopy Christmas ornaments, a 3 ft. tall "Flintstones" Dino character & a 4-foot-tall gingerbread house. Although the decorations were "not real valuable," it's "just a nasty thing to do at this time of the year," said Sgt. John Hauck of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department's Carson station.
Sgt. Hauck suggested placing decorations as close to the house as possible and motion detector lights. "Really, it's not as common as you might think," Hauck said. "Once every year, someone has a loss like that."
California Penal Code 484:
(a) Every person who shall feloniously steal, take, carry,lead, or drive away the personal property of another, or who shall fraudulently appropriate property which has been entrusted to him or her, or who shall knowingly and designedly, by any false or fraudulent representation or pretense, defraud any other person or money, labor or real or personal property, or who causes or procures others to report falsely of his or her wealth or mercantile character and by thus imposing upon any person, obtains credit and thereby
fraudulently gets or obtains possession of money, or property or obtains the labor or service of another, is guilty of theft. In determining the value of the property obtained, for the purposes of this section, the reasonable and fair market value shall be the test,
and in determining the value of services received the contract price shall be the test. If there be no contract price, the reasonable and going wage for the service rendered shall govern. For the purposes of this section, any false or fraudulent representation or pretense
made shall be treated as continuing, so as to cover any money, property or service received as a result thereof, and the complaint, information or indictment may charge that the crime was committed on any date during the particular period in question. The hiring of any additional employee or employees without advising each of them of every labor claim due and unpaid and every judgment that the employer has been unable to meet shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud.
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Posted By Admin on
December 16, 2010 10:25 am |
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