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General Overview of Theft from Interstate Shipment
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Section 659 of title 18 proscribes the embezzlement, theft, or
unlawful
taking from certain listed facilities, including pipelines, railroad cars,
motor
trucks, depots, aircraft, aircraft terminals, vessels and wharves, of goods
or
chattels which are moving as, are part of, or constitute an interstate or
foreign
shipment. Similar acts with regard to the baggage in the possession of a
common
carrier for interstate or foreign transportation or of any property of a
passenger in interstate or foreign transportation are also prohibited by the
section. Section 659 also prohibits the buying, receiving, or possession of
such
goods or chattels by a person knowing them to have been embezzled or stolen.
Where the value of the goods does not exceed $100 the theft is
punishable as a misdemeanor; otherwise it is a felony.
[cited in USAM 9-61.300] | |