The phrase "a petty charge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small or insignificant fee or cost that may be considered trivial.
Example: "The restaurant added a petty charge to the bill for extra condiments, which I found unnecessary."
Alternatives: "a minor fee" or "a trivial charge."
Last year, a court dismissed a case brought by the injured students against the police forces and found one man guilty of a petty charge in the clash, stealing a razor.
Yang's film, "The Mother of One Recluse," is, like Ying's 2012 film, "When Night Falls," based on the true story of Yang Jia, who, in 2008, after being arrested on a petty charge and abused by the police, killed six officers.
Du Fu's conscientiousness compelled him to try to make use of it: he caused trouble for himself by protesting the removal of his friend and patron Fang Guan on a petty charge.
A police official said that Mr. Clarke had an arrest record that included one charge of menacing in New York, as well as arrests on a weapons charge and a petty larceny charge in Virginia.
Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said that Mr. Matyjewicz (pronounced Mat-ee-YAY-veetch), who was also being sought on a warrant for a petty larceny charge from last year, was arrested in the art space, at Broadway and Howard Street in SoHo, and charged with two misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief.
The police first arrested Ms. Jones in September on a petty larceny charge in one similar but separate case.
She said Mitchell returned to the jail in January 2012, again on a petty larceny charge, before being released in May 2012 having spent a month in a state hospital.
In another case, a cop who had arrested a woman on a petty larceny charge ordered her into a holding cell and told her to take her pants down so he could search for contraband.
Sure, I can throw a t-shirt on and see how it looks, but how will others see me when I'm running from the police due to a petty vandalism charge?
A petty theft charge will probably be added, police said.
The second was a petty theft charge: He and his college roommate took a chair from a university dumpster to put in their room.
