How to Use petty theft in a Sentence

petty theft

noun

• About half of the petty theft took place on the train, and less than a quarter of them happen on train station platforms.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• She was also suspected of petty theft and bail was set at $5,000.
  — Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2024
• The suspect was charged with petty theft, a misdemeanor.
  — cleveland, 2 Sep. 2023
• Not doing so could be considered petty theft, resulting in a misdemeanor and fines of up to $1,000 and up to a year in jail.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 25 June 2024
• The 39-year-old Bay Point man was arrested Dec. 16 on suspicion of petty theft, and later released with no charges filed, court records show.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2024
• Current penalties for stealing the car part include petty theft, which can be charged as a misdemeanor, or grand theft, which can be charged as a felony.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• An increase in petty theft weighed on retail store gross profit margins.
  — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2023
• Palacios acknowledges that travelers to cities like Buenos Aires, Barcelona and Paris also have to be cautious of petty theft or scams.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
• King is charged with one felony count each of second-degree robbery and extortion and one misdemeanor count of petty theft.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• Police could only find a criminal record of a petty theft conviction against her in 2013.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The sales clerks had their pockets sewn shut to discourage petty theft, but these workers could debate the merits of the writer Naguib Mahfouz’s Nobel Prize.
  — Nadia Wassef, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
• The case that brought down Suffolk County’s top three law enforcement officials began as a petty theft in 2012.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
• In a Jamaica summer, two estranged cousins converge and, after a petty theft, are cursed by a local shopkeeper.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024
• Cordero was charged with 61 counts of grand theft, 14 counts of petty theft, organized retail theft, identity theft and conspiracy.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
• In Sacramento County, the suspect is accused of misdemeanor petty theft, vandalism and felony grand theft, said Sgt.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 17 Apr. 2024
• Now the victims are often low-level criminals, mostly in poor townships, suspected of petty theft or drug dealing.
  — Gwen McClure, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2013
• Finally, one of the strongest considerations for how to proceed with a petty theft depends on the relationship your family has with the store and the store manager.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
• Prosecutors filed a misdemeanor petty theft charge against Park.
  — Gabriel San Románstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• According to records from the Okaloosa Department of Corrections, the woman was charged on July 29 with animal cruelty as well as petty theft for the missing enclosure.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024
• She also was convicted on one count of misdemeanor petty theft in relation to a theft that occurred at an Abercrombie and Fitch location in San Francisco as well.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 10 May 2024
• Police will recommend misdemeanor charges of prowling, peeping and petty theft.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Feb. 2024
• Retailers say both petty theft and organized robberies have increased since the pandemic, although data does not always support these claims.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
• Some of those officers have been accused (prior to their move to Florida) of petty theft and illegally detaining peaceful protestors.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• Alex is used to using people to her advantage—manipulation and petty theft are two of her biggest talents—until her latest benefactor casts her out just before Labor Day.
  — Halie Lesavage, harpersbazaar.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• Typically, property owners do have the right to trim branches that hang over their property line, but harvesting the fruit off those branches without permission could still be considered petty theft.
  — Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 26 June 2024
• Romine was initially arrested on July 3 on a felony warrant for petty theft, violation of his pre-trial release and counterfeiting.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 4 Aug. 2024
• So far, the spate of retaliation claims appears to have come exclusively from employees in the criminal branch, which prosecutes misdemeanors such as vandalism, drunk driving and petty theft.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
• He was twice found to be mentally incompetent to stand trial, and his criminal history consisted largely of petty theft accusations, records show.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
• Even for more serious crimes — petty theft, for example — the criminal justice system stumbles over the false binary of felony and lifelong consequences, or unenforceability.
  — Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
• Municipal courts are the lowest-level courts in Colorado and handle city code violations, such as traffic offenses, petty theft, trespassing and possessing alcohol as a minor.
  — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024