Articles Posted in Larceny By Stealing

The defendant and several family members were involved in a dispute involving a single family home in Somerville, Massachusetts. The victims claimed that our client forged several bank documents resulting in the transfer of their home to him. They brought this to the attention of the district attorney’s office. An investigation convinced the prosecution that…

Our client is a sixty year old physician’s assistant who was licensed to prescribe medications and also permitted to write on supervising physician’s licenses. Between April 2015 and September 2015 the accused wrote twenty two prescriptions on a doctor’s prescription pad, and used the prescriptions to obtain gift cards at a pharmacy providing incentives to…

Last year our client was a freshman at a prestigious college in the western part of Massachusetts. The prosecution alleged that she stole credit cards from her roommate and another person and charged several thousand dollars to the card for personal purchases. The university police collaborated with the local police and issued charges of larceny…

The defendant is a marketing executive working for a large property management company. Her employer became suspicious when gift cards it had given to customers went missing and purchases in the thousands of dollars were made on them. The matter was reported to local detectives who conducted a lengthy investigation into her suspected activities. A…

The defendant is a nursing student. She works as an intern in a nursing home in Worcester and is not a citizen. In mid January this woman and a friend were shopping at a store in a local mall. Collectively they stole over $1,000 worth of clothes and other items from several stores in the…

The defendant is a contractor who also buys, restores and resells homes. In this case it was alleged that our client, during the course of making renovations and repairs to a home stole in excess of twenty thousand dollars property in violation of G.L. c. 266 Section 30. Under Massachusetts law this is a felony.…

The prosecution alleged that on February 5, 2015 Boston Police were called to an upscale Boylston Street store for a report of a larceny. Upon arrival the officers met with store security personnel who observed the defendant removing price tags from merchandise and secret the items in his jacket. He attempted to exit the store…

Just a few weeks ago loss prevention spotted a man in a local department store concealing various items on his person. They confronted the man and detained him for a lengthy period of time. He was interrogated and ultimately admitted to stealing merchandise from the store. The police were called and the man was arrested…

The defendant is a young woman who worked at a local store that sells video games. The prosecution alleged that our client was involved in a scheme where she would issue credits for merchandise that was supposedly returned, and pocket the money without ever receiving the property. In addition, she would take money from people…

The defendant is a resident of another state. In November of 2013 he and another person were “shopping” at the Burlington Mall. A loss prevention officer observed the two making numerous purchases with several different credit cards. The suspects were seen going into other stores making purchases in a similar manner. The police were called…