Property & Financial Crimes
Theft, robbery, burglary, fraud, property damage, arson, and financial offenses.Every charge below uses the same title, classification, fine, jail value, citation status, and legal description as the generated MDT SQL.
Charging Guide
- Theft is taking property without force; Robbery requires force or threat against a person.
- Burglary is unlawful entry with intent to commit theft or another felony inside; the intended offense may be charged if completed.
- Grand Theft Auto applies to an unoccupied vehicle; Carjacking requires taking from an occupant by force or threat.
- Aggravated versions replace the base offense for the same taking, entry, or damage.
Quick Reference
§42 — Petty Theft
Class C Misdemeanor · Fine: $500 · Jail: 0 months · Cite & Release: Eligible · Community Service: 10 tasks A person commits Petty Theft when they intentionally take or exercise unauthorized control over another person’s property valued at less than $1,000 with intent to deprive the owner of its use or benefit.Charging & stacking: A genuine civil debt or contract dispute is not theft without evidence that the defendant intended to obtain property or services by deception or without payment at the time of the transaction.
§43 — Grand Theft
Class C Felony · Fine: $1,500 · Jail: 20 months · Cite & Release: No · Community Service: 25 tasks A person commits Grand Theft when they intentionally take or exercise unauthorized control over another person’s property valued at $1,000 or more with intent to deprive the owner of its use or benefit.Charging & stacking: Use the vehicle-specific theft statutes for motor vehicles and aircraft. Do not stack Petty Theft and Grand Theft for the same property.
§44 — Grand Theft Auto
Class C Felony · Fine: $2,000 · Jail: 25 months · Cite & Release: No · Community Service: 25 tasks A person commits Grand Theft Auto when they intentionally take, drive, or exercise unauthorized control over an unoccupied motor vehicle belonging to another with intent to substantially deprive the owner of possession or use.Charging & stacking: Use Carjacking when the vehicle is taken directly from an occupant by force or threat. Temporary unauthorized use without intent to substantially deprive should be charged only if another applicable vehicle offense exists.
§45 — Aggravated Grand Theft Auto
Class B Felony · Fine: $3,500 · Jail: 30 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Aggravated Grand Theft Auto when they commit Grand Theft Auto while armed with a deadly weapon, as part of a separate felony, or under other circumstances creating a substantial danger beyond the vehicle theft itself.Charging & stacking: This offense applies to theft of an unoccupied vehicle. Taking a vehicle from an occupant through force or threat is Carjacking or Armed Carjacking.
§46 — Carjacking
Class B Felony · Fine: $3,500 · Jail: 30 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Carjacking when they intentionally take or attempt to take a motor vehicle from the immediate possession of an occupant by force, violence, intimidation, or threat of immediate harm.Charging & stacking: If a deadly weapon is used or displayed, use Armed Carjacking. Do not stack Grand Theft Auto for the same taking.
§47 — Burglary
Class C Felony · Fine: $2,000 · Jail: 25 months · Cite & Release: No · Community Service: 25 tasks A person commits Burglary when, without permission or lawful authority, they enter or remain within a building, enclosed structure, dwelling, secured room, or locked vehicle with intent to commit theft or another felony inside.Charging & stacking: The intended theft or felony may be separately charged if completed. Mere unauthorized entry without criminal intent is Trespass, not Burglary.
§48 — Robbery
Class C Felony · Fine: $2,500 · Jail: 30 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Robbery when they intentionally take property from another person or that person’s immediate presence, against their will, by force, violence, intimidation, or threat of immediate harm.Charging & stacking: If a deadly weapon is used or displayed, use Armed Robbery. Theft from an unattended location is not Robbery.
§49 — Accessory to Robbery
Class C Felony · Fine: $1,500 · Jail: 20 months · Cite & Release: No · Community Service: 25 tasks A person commits Accessory to Robbery when, knowing another intends to commit Robbery, they intentionally provide substantial aid before or during the offense, such as acting as lookout, getaway driver, planner, or supplier of essential tools.Charging & stacking: Mere presence or knowledge is insufficient. Do not stack with Robbery against the same defendant for the same participation.
§50 — Attempted Robbery
Class C Felony · Fine: $1,500 · Jail: 20 months · Cite & Release: No · Community Service: 25 tasks A person commits Attempted Robbery when they intend to commit Robbery and take a direct and substantial step toward taking property by force, intimidation, or threat, but no property is successfully taken.Charging & stacking: Attempted Robbery does not stack with completed Robbery for the same incident.
§51 — Armed Robbery
Class A Felony · Fine: $5,000 · Jail: 30 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Armed Robbery when they commit Robbery while using, displaying, brandishing, or threatening the immediate use of a firearm or other deadly weapon.Charging & stacking: Armed Robbery replaces Robbery for the same taking. Do not add Criminal Use of Weapon solely because weapon use is already an element of this offense.
§52 — Accessory to Armed Robbery
Class B Felony · Fine: $3,500 · Jail: 30 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Accessory to Armed Robbery when, knowing another intends to commit an armed robbery, they intentionally provide substantial material aid before or during the offense.Charging & stacking: The defendant must know a deadly weapon will be used or be deliberately indifferent to that agreed plan. Mere presence is insufficient.
§53 — Attempted Armed Robbery
Class B Felony · Fine: $3,000 · Jail: 30 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Attempted Armed Robbery when they intend to commit Armed Robbery and take a direct and substantial step toward taking property by force or intimidation while using, displaying, or threatening a deadly weapon, but no property is taken.Charging & stacking: Do not stack with completed Armed Robbery for the same incident.
§55 — Possession or Use of Counterfeit Currency
Class B Misdemeanor · Fine: $1,000 · Jail: 15 months · Cite & Release: No · Community Service: 15 tasks A person commits Possession or Use of Counterfeit Currency when they knowingly possess counterfeit currency with intent to pass, transfer, sell, or use it as genuine legal tender, or knowingly attempt to pass counterfeit currency as genuine. Mere innocent possession without knowledge is insufficient.§57 — Possession of Burglary or Criminal Tools
Class C Misdemeanor · Fine: $500 · Jail: 5 months · Cite & Release: Eligible · Community Service: 10 tasks A person commits Possession of Burglary or Criminal Tools when they possess tools, devices, or instruments under circumstances demonstrating a specific intent to use them to commit burglary, vehicle theft, forgery, or another offense.Charging & stacking: Possession of an ordinary tool is not criminal without evidence of criminal intent.
§58 — Sale of Burglary or Criminal Tools
Class B Misdemeanor · Fine: $750 · Jail: 10 months · Cite & Release: No · Community Service: 15 tasks A person commits Sale of Burglary or Criminal Tools when they knowingly sell, transfer, or supply a tool or device with the specific intent that it be used to commit burglary, vehicle theft, forgery, or another offense. Ordinary lawful sales are excluded.§60 — Criminal Possession of Stolen Property
Class B Misdemeanor · Fine: $750 · Jail: 10 months · Cite & Release: No · Community Service: 15 tasks A person who knowingly has in their possession, receives, or retains stolen property, with the knowledge that such property was unlawfully taken from its rightful owner, is guilty under this code section. Intent to return the property does not excuse liability.Charging & stacking: Possession requires knowledge that the property was stolen; mere proximity or innocent receipt is insufficient.
§62 — Criminal Impersonation
Class B Misdemeanor · Fine: $1,000 · Jail: 15 months · Cite & Release: No · Community Service: 15 tasks A person commits Criminal Impersonation when they knowingly assume another person’s identity, credentials, or identifying information with intent to deceive another person, obtain a benefit, avoid legal responsibility, or cause harm.Charging & stacking: Use the public-servant-specific impersonation statutes when the false identity is that of an officer or judge.
§66 — Extortion
Class C Felony · Fine: $2,500 · Jail: 30 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Extortion when, with intent to obtain money, property, services, an official act, or another benefit, they threaten unlawful injury, property damage, accusation, exposure of damaging information, or other wrongful harm unless the victim complies.Charging & stacking: A lawful demand for payment or settlement is not Extortion merely because consequences are stated.
§67 — Fraud
Class B Misdemeanor · Fine: $1,000 · Jail: 15 months · Cite & Release: No · Community Service: 15 tasks A person commits Fraud when they knowingly make a material false representation or conceal a material fact with intent that another rely on the deception, and thereby obtain or attempt to obtain money, property, services, or another benefit.Charging & stacking: A broken promise or unpaid debt is not criminal fraud without evidence of deceptive intent at the time the benefit was obtained.
§68 — Forgery
Class C Felony · Fine: $1,500 · Jail: 20 months · Cite & Release: No · Community Service: 25 tasks A person commits Forgery when, with intent to defraud or deceive, they falsely make, alter, complete, sign, or use a document, credential, seal, record, or electronic instrument so that it appears genuine or authorized when it is not.§69 — Money Laundering
Class A Felony · Fine: $7,500 · Jail: 30 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Money Laundering when they knowingly conduct, conceal, structure, transfer, receive, or facilitate a financial transaction involving proceeds of criminal activity with intent to disguise the source, ownership, location, control, or nature of those proceeds, or to promote further criminal activity.Charging & stacking: Mere possession of cash is insufficient without evidence connecting the funds to criminal proceeds and the laundering purpose.
§70 — Failure to Leave After Trespass Warning
Class C Misdemeanor · Fine: $250 · Jail: 0 months · Cite & Release: Eligible · Community Service: 10 tasks A person commits Failure to Leave After Trespass Warning when, while lawfully present or after an initially innocent entry, they remain on private or restricted property after receiving a clear and lawful direction to leave from the owner, authorized agent, or peace officer acting on the owner’s request, and they have a reasonable opportunity to depart.Charging & stacking: This is the lower-level first-response trespass offense and is ordinarily cite-and-release eligible.
§71 — Criminal Trespass
Class B Misdemeanor · Fine: $750 · Jail: 10 months · Cite & Release: No · Community Service: 15 tasks A person commits Criminal Trespass when they knowingly enter or remain on property without authorization after prior notice that entry is forbidden, or intentionally return after a valid trespass notice.Charging & stacking: Use Felony Trespassing for secured government or critical facilities. Do not stack Failure to Leave and Criminal Trespass for the same uninterrupted refusal unless separate conduct supports both.
§73 — Arson
Class B Felony · Fine: $5,000 · Jail: 35 months · Cite & Release: No A person who intentionally and maliciously sets fire to, or burns, any structure, vehicle, forest land, or other property without proper authorization is guilty under this code section. A person who aids, counsels, or otherwise facilitates the burning of property without lawful authority is also guilty under this section.Charging & stacking: If a person is killed or seriously injured by the fire, applicable homicide or battery offenses may be separately charged for the distinct harm.
§74 — Vandalism
Infraction · Fine: $250 · Jail: 0 months · Cite & Release: Eligible A person who unlawfully defaces, damages, or destroys property belonging to another individual, business, or government entity is guilty under this code section.Charging & stacking: Use Felony Criminal Damage to Property when damage is substantial or affects critical infrastructure.
§77 — Criminal Mischief
Class C Misdemeanor · Fine: $500 · Jail: 5 months · Cite & Release: Eligible · Community Service: 10 tasks A person who willfully and unlawfully tampers with, damages, interferes with, or obstructs the use of another person’s property, without causing permanent destruction, is guilty under this code section. This offense includes acts of interference or tampering that do not rise to the level of arson, vandalism, or felony property damage.§104 — Vehicle Tampering
Class B Misdemeanor · Fine: $750 · Jail: 10 months · Cite & Release: No · Community Service: 15 tasks A person who intentionally tampers with, interferes with, or damages a vehicle without the consent of the owner is guilty under this code section.Charging & stacking: If the tampering is done with intent to steal the vehicle, charge the applicable vehicle-theft offense instead of stacking Vehicle Tampering for the same act.
§218 — Home Invasion
Class B Felony · Fine: $5,000 · Jail: 35 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Home Invasion when, without lawful authority, they knowingly enter or remain in an occupied dwelling and use or threaten force against an occupant, or enter while armed with intent to commit a violent felony inside.Charging & stacking: Home Invasion is more serious than ordinary Burglary because the dwelling is occupied and the offense involves force, threat, or an armed violent objective. Do not stack Burglary for the same entry.
§219 — Armed Carjacking
Class A Felony · Fine: $6,000 · Jail: 40 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Armed Carjacking when they commit Carjacking while using, displaying, brandishing, or threatening the immediate use of a firearm or other deadly weapon.Charging & stacking: This offense replaces Carjacking for the same taking. Do not add Criminal Use of Weapon solely for the weapon use already required by this offense.
§220 — Identity Theft
Class C Felony · Fine: $2,500 · Jail: 25 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Identity Theft when they knowingly obtain, possess, transfer, or use another person’s identifying information, credentials, financial information, or government identifiers without authorization and with intent to obtain a benefit, commit fraud, evade legal responsibility, or cause loss or harm.Charging & stacking: Criminal Impersonation may apply to face-to-face or representational deception; avoid duplicate punishment when both charges rely on the identical deceptive act.
§221 — Embezzlement
Class C Felony · Fine: $3,000 · Jail: 25 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Embezzlement when property, money, or assets are lawfully entrusted to their possession or control and they intentionally convert, appropriate, transfer, or use those assets for an unauthorized personal or criminal purpose with intent to deprive the owner.Charging & stacking: This offense differs from ordinary theft because the defendant initially obtained lawful possession or control.
§222 — Felony Criminal Damage to Property
Class C Felony · Fine: $3,500 · Jail: 25 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Felony Criminal Damage to Property when they intentionally or maliciously damage property of another and the damage is substantial, exceeds $5,000, disables essential business operations, or affects critical public infrastructure.Charging & stacking: Use ordinary Vandalism or Criminal Mischief for minor damage. Do not stack those lesser property-damage offenses for the same damage.
§231 — Tampering with Vehicle Identification
Class C Felony · Fine: $2,500 · Jail: 20 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Tampering with Vehicle Identification when, with intent to conceal ownership, facilitate theft, evade law enforcement, or traffic a stolen vehicle, they knowingly remove, alter, falsify, replace, or obscure a vehicle identification number, registration plate, or other permanent identifying mark.Charging & stacking: Minor plate-display violations without criminal intent are traffic infractions, not this offense.
§232 — Possession of a Stolen Vehicle
Class C Felony · Fine: $2,500 · Jail: 20 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Possession of a Stolen Vehicle when they knowingly possess, receive, conceal, transport, or exercise control over a motor vehicle they know or reasonably should know was stolen.Charging & stacking: A person who actually committed the vehicle theft should ordinarily be charged with the theft offense rather than additionally with possession of the same stolen vehicle.
§235 — Arson of an Occupied Structure
Class A Felony · Fine: $7,500 · Jail: 45 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Arson of an Occupied Structure when they intentionally and maliciously set fire to or cause an explosion in an occupied dwelling, business, vehicle, or structure, knowing or reasonably having reason to know that a person is present or likely to be present.Charging & stacking: This offense replaces ordinary Arson for the same fire. Injury or death may support separate battery or homicide charges for the distinct harm.
§236 — Destruction of Critical Infrastructure
Class B Felony · Fine: $6,000 · Jail: 35 months · Cite & Release: No A person commits Destruction of Critical Infrastructure when they intentionally damage, disable, sabotage, or destroy infrastructure essential to public safety or government operations, including power, water, emergency communications, transportation control, or comparable critical systems, and the conduct causes or creates a substantial risk of widespread disruption.Charging & stacking: Ordinary vandalism of government property is insufficient without the critical-infrastructure element.
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