Forgery; petty theft: 2900 block of Fairway Avenue.
Forgery, checks; petty theft, mail: 800 block of Valley Crest Street.
Mr. Knight was charged with forgery, grand and petty larceny, scheming to defraud, and possession of stolen property.
Mr. O'Hare and Mr. Daloia were arrested on charges of criminal possession of a forged instrument, second-degree forgery and attempted petty larceny.
— The docket in front of Justice Mark G. Farrell one recent Tuesday afternoon looked like a routine roster of small-time crime: petty larceny, attempted burglary, check forgery.
Its hardest-core operatives are trained to live as respectable citizens who break no laws.Where necessary, al-Qaeda will encourage some of its agents to engage in petty crime, like robbery and forgery, as a source of liquid cash; but there is usually a high "Chinese wall" separating these operatives from the prized volunteers who are preparing to lay down their lives in suicide attacks.
The two men were to be arraigned on Wednesday on charges of attempted forgery, attempted possession of a forged instrument and petty larceny, the police said.
More significantly, however, the measure would lower to a misdemeanor other crimes deemed nonviolent and nonserious, such as petty theft, shoplifting, receiving stolen property, writing bad checks and forgery.
He's a petty criminal with a string of convictions for things like cheque forgery but hasn't committed any similar offences as far as we know.
For example, in California women are three times more likely to be in prison for forgery or fraud and twice as likely to be incarcerated for petty theft.
