Property Crimes & Theft

Property Crimes and Theft charges can have a devastating affect on one’s personal and professional life. Conviction of such crimes carries potential jail time, inevitably affects future employment opportunities, and places one in serious disfavor with banks and other lending institutions.

Theft crimes are generally defined as the taking (converting) of something that is owned by another person, where the accused does so fraudulently, and with the intent to temporarily or permanently deprive the person of said property. Fraud is a crime of dishonesty that causes deprivation or risk of deprivation of a financial nature. The offence one is charged with is contingent on the value of the property (under or over $5000) and permits the Crown to elect whether to proceed ‘summarily’ or ‘by indictment’, thereby leading to very different potential outcomes in punishment.

Property crimes the firm defends against include:

• Fraud Under $5000
• Fraud Over $5000
• Mischief Under $5000
• Mischief Over $5000
• Theft Under $5000
• Theft Over $5000
• Robbery
• Arson
• Possession of Property Obtained by Crime
• Break & Enter
• Extortion