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Several Similar Thefts from the Same Store Constituted a Single, Continuing Crime

The Second Department, over a dissent, determined defendant, who stole items from a store on a series of separate occasions, had committed a continuing crime and therefore was properly prosecuted for stealing merchandise worth more than $1000.00:

The evidence presented at trial demonstrated that the defendant took similar expensive electronic merchandise from the same store on each occasion, under virtually the same circumstances, and with the assistance of the driver of the minivan. Contrary to the position of our dissenting colleague, we find that this evidence sufficiently established that the defendant stole merchandise “with a single [ongoing] intent, carried out in successive stages” (People v Rossi, 5 NY2d at 401), and that this was not merely a series of distinct petty thefts (see People v Daghita, 301 NY 223, 225 [affirming the defendant’s conviction of a single continuing grand larceny where he stole a “considerable quantity of merchandise over a period of time” from the same store and “used a large portion of it to furnish his home and to outfit his family”]; see also People v Henderson, 163 AD2d 888; cf. People v Seymour, 77 AD3d 976, 980 [insufficient proof that two thefts from the same store constituted a common scheme or plan, where the defendant stole one television during the first incident, a variety of merchandise during the second incident, and each theft was perpetrated in a different manner, since “there was no evidence of the defendant’s intent to commit fraud or of his intent to engage in a plan of continuous fraud”]). People v Malcolm, 2015 NY Slip Op 06829, 2nd Dept 9-16-15

 

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