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- In March 1892, Thälmann's parents were convicted and sentenced to two years in prison because they had fenced stolen goods or had taken them for debt payment.
- Thief-takers became infamously known not so much for what they were supposed to do, catching real criminals and prosecuting them, as for "setting themselves up as intermediaries between victims and their attackers, extracting payments for the return of stolen goods and using the threat of prosecution to keep offenders in thrall".
- The TSA has also been criticized for not responding properly to theft and failing to reimburse passengers for stolen goods.
- ... Ancient Greek: Αὐτόλυκος "Autolykos" 'the wolf itself') was a successful robber who had even the power of metamorphosing both the stolen goods and himself.
- For the purposes of the provisions of the Theft Act 1968 which relate to stolen goods, goods obtain in England or Wales or elsewhere by blackmail or fraud are regarded as stolen, and the words "steal", "theft" and "thief" are construed accordingly.
- However, laws in many jurisdictions protect both the community and broker from "unknowingly" handling stolen goods.
- It is important to distinguish between the intention sufficient to obtain possession of a thing and the intention required to commit the crime of possessing something illegally, such as banned drugs, firearms or stolen goods.
- A fence or receiver (銷贓者), was a merchant who bought and sold stolen goods.
- Police began to take pictures of looters arrested, the arresting officer, and the stolen goods, to speed up the process and postpone the paperwork.
- In 2010 the former president of Houston-based Trammo Petroleum was sentenced to three years of probation and fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to receive stolen goods.
- Most of the charges that were made against him were later dropped, but others remained. In addition, his wife Regina was arrested for receiving stolen goods.
- The total worth of his stolen goods is estimated at [...] million (Approximately $2,576,920 US). Yip achieved notoriety by escaping police custody multiple times.
- smuggling goods; stolen goods – knowingly participating in their trade is an offense in itself, called fencing.
- "Haughton v Smith" was a judicial case in which the House of Lords ruled that it was impossible to commit the crime of handling stolen goods where the goods were not stolen; nor could an offence of attempting to handle them be committed in such circumstances.
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