Recent Posts in Theft Offense Category
Posted on Jan 30, 2013 By Attorney Robert M. Bernstein
A masked gunman who robbed a home in Rancho Palos Verdes was arrested after an iPhone he stole allowed police to track him down. Deputies believe the suspect entered through a sliding glass door in ...
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Posted on Oct 12, 2012 By Robert M. Bernstein
A recently released inmate who had done time for theft was back behind bars after he was spotted in a Los Angeles Walmart parking lot wearing stolen blue jail-issued pants. A deputy saw Marcus Garcia ...
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Posted on Jun 7, 2012 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
Thomas Langenbach, a 47-year-old vice president of global software giant SAP, purchased hundreds of boxes of Legos from Target stores at vastly discounted prices by covering the bar codes on the boxes ...
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Posted on Dec 17, 2011 By Los Angeles Defense Attorney
Investors have accused Jody Foster's estranged father, Lucius Foster III, of bilking them out of more than $100,000 in a scheme to build modular homes. Foster is accused of conning 20 people to ...
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Posted on Aug 29, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
Tina Marquez was already serving a two year prison sentence for disability insurance fraud when she was sentenced to an additional 16 months for embezzling over $42,000 from a Glendale youth football ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
Recently, the California Supreme Court agreed to hear a First Amendment overbreadth challenge to a statute making it a crime to threaten retaliation against a victim or witness. Eddie Lowery and his ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein, Esq.
A ttorney Leslie McAfee has been charged with stealing more than $300,000 in guns, jewelry and art from his friend's estate after he died of cancer in March 2010. He was arrested when a ...
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Posted on Aug 13, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein, Esq.
A UCLA basketball player has been charged with Grand Theft after police were able to track down a stolen MacBook Pro in his possession, using the laptop's tracking device. The point guard has been ...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2011 By Criminal Defense
A Hermosa Beach woman, Debra Louise Brass, sold dozens of fake Lady Gaga tickets on Craigslist last summer. She has been charged with Grand Theft. Police learned about the phony tickets from a woman ...
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Posted on Dec 20, 2010 By Attorney Robert Bernstein
Possession of Less Than an Ounce of Marijuana is Now an Infraction: Under current California law, the possession of any amount of marijuana is charged as a criminal misdemeanor. As of January 1, 2011, ...
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Posted on Oct 7, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
Jonathan Dickstein, a former partner of the large international law firm, Morrison and Foerster, is facing over 30 felony criminal charges including Grand Theft, Forgery, Insurance Fraud and ...
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Posted on Sep 23, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
Credit Card Fraud has become an increasingly common crime in California and throughout the United States. It is a form of theft and can occur in the following ways; deceiving someone into giving you ...
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Posted on Sep 16, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
To most people, the crimes of robbery, burglary and theft sound like they could be interchangeable. While these three offenses do have some similar aspects, under California law the elements of each ...
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Posted on May 31, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
23-year-old Kainat Syeda allegedly stole money from the city of Anaheim from January 2006 to April 2009, while working as a uniformed cadet in the front lobby traffic bureau window of the Anaheim ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney Robert M. Bernstein was hired to defend a client, David Brown, who had been charged with seven counts of armed robbery. Brown was accused of robbing medical ...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2009 By Robert Bernstein
Kanye West has been charged with three criminal misdemeanor offenses. The musician faces charges of vandalism, battery and grand theft stemming from a run-in with a cameraman in the Los Angeles ...
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