General Continuance for Man Charged With Felony Larceny and Shoplifting by Concealing Merchandise

In November of last year loss prevention officers at a local shopping center detained a man and his wife on suspicion of theft charges. This couple had been under investigation by the store under the belief that they had been stealing from the store for a significant period of time. On this particular date, the loss prevention officers watched the defendants on security cameras and confirmed what they had observed previously on video footage. Specifically, that the defendants had stolen thousands of dollars worth of goods from the store over a four month period. The police were called to the scene and the couple were arrested and charged with larceny over $1,200 in violation of G.L. c. 266 section 30A and shoplifting by concealing merchandise, also in violation of G.L. c. 266 section 30A. Attorney Neyman was hired to represent the husband. We prevailed on the district attorney’s office to agree to a general continuance of the charges. This means that provided our clients remain free of criminal legal problems for the next six months all charges will be dismissed. This result is actually better than pretrial probation, G.L. c. 276 section 87, in that there is no supervision from the probation department. 

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