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Theft Charges

Theft charges can carry serious, life-changing consequences for those who are convicted ranging from court ordered probation with restitution to lengthy prison sentences. If you have been charged with theft it is important you promptly retain an experienced criminal defense attorney. Let the attorney’s at Robin Fuson P.A. protect your rights in the system they know.

Some types of burglary and theft charges our Florida criminal lawyer defends, include:

• Embezzlement: Embezzlement is defined as the taking of another's money and property through abuse of an official job or position of trust. An example would be an accountant depositing money into a personal account from a business' assets for personal use.
• Credit Card Fraud: Fraud is generally defined as purposely lying in order to induce someone into relying on the lie to part with something of value. In regards to credit card fraud, this "lying" can occur either through personal contact where a victim's private information is revealed or even on the Internet, where a person's financial information can be stolen and put to use for the illegal purpose of using someone else's credit cards for personal gain.
• Petit Theft and Grand Theft: Theft is defined as the unlawful taking of the personal property of another without proper consent and with the intent to deprive the victim of the ownership or use thereof. Florida designates petit theft as the taking of anything that is worth less than $300, and the taking of anything worth $300 or more as grand theft. The difference is that grand theft is a felony, carrying more serious penalties that include prison. Under most circumstances the maximum sentence for a petit theft is one year in the county jail, however if a person has three or more prior petit theft convictions the state attorney can upgrade the case to a felony.
• Shoplifting: Under Florida law a person commits retail theft simply by altering or removing a label, universal product code, or price tag, by transferring merchandise from one container to another or by removing a shopping cart, with intent to deprive the merchant of possession, use, benefit, or "full retail value" constitutes retail theft in Florida. Physically removing an item from a store without paying is not required under the law.
• Dealing in Stolen Property: Dealing in Stolen Property is defined in Florida as any person who traffics in, or endeavors to traffic in, property that he or she knows or should know was stolen shall be guilty of a felony of the second degree punishable by up to 15 years in prison.