Not Guilty Verdict After Jury Trial for Woman Charged With Felony Receiving Stolen Property Over $250

The defendant is a legal alien from China. She does not speak English. The prosecution alleged that in February of 2017 a seventy-eight year old man from upstate New York received a call from a person purporting to be a lawyer. The called stated that he was representing the man’s granddaughter who had just been arrested and charged with marijuana distribution. The man asked the man to transfer a substantial sum of money to a bank account for legal fees. The victim complied. He quickly learned that he had been scammed and that the caller was not in fact a lawyer. Subsequently, after a lengthy police investigation it was determined that the defendant and her daughter-in-law had been part of the scam. They were caught spending the proceeds of the theft at several stores in Massachusetts, one of them a Target Store in Easton. Store security videotape confirmed the suspicions and the defendant was arrested and charged with larceny from a person over sixty, G.L. c. 266 Section 30(5), larceny by scheme, G.L. c. 266 Section 30(1) and receiving stolen property, G.L. c. 266 Section 60. A loss would have resulted in jail and deportation. Attorney Neyman was able to get the first two counts dismissed prior to trial. The remaining count was tried to a jury and the defendant was found not guilty.

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