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Price’s work and personal phones have been subpoenaed in that Oakland murder case, and her text messages were turned over to Juarez’s attorney in the grand theft case.
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Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2025
Before the show’s premiere in 2024, she was arrested for burglary, battery, and grand theft following an altercation with Jammiah Broomfield, the mother of Kodak’s first child.
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 24 Jan. 2025
There he was housed with Johnson, who was serving a five-year sentence for fraud and grand theft.
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Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 17 Jan. 2025
Police identified the oldest suspect as Brandon McClain, 18, who was arrested on suspicion of grand theft and retail theft.
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Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1930, in the meaning defined above
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“Grand theft.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grand%20theft. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
Legal Definition
grand theft
see theft
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