They certainly didn't feel sorry for me.... and it had 31s, a standard and 285k on the clock. Fortunately, I hadn't redone the interior as I had planned. Someone's gonna get a nice Dana 44, ARBs and serious bumpers. Worth more parted out than intact. Easy to work on too! Pritchett, Upper Helldorado and Rusty nail were the only trails it hadn't done in Utah, for good reason. Hole in the Rock was the most fun. Elephant Hill at night returning from Beef Basin with broken front axle slapping around wasn't bad either. Routinely got over 20mpg at 75mph on interstates. God, that was a good vehicle!
What do you mean? They freaking sent a helicopter the other night around Pasadena to catch a car thieves gang, not the kind who steal cars, but whatever they find inside the car. They caught one and it is currently being prosecuted.
Theft of goods valued under $1000 is now a misdemeanor offense in California, punishable with a ticket and you get to walk away. They must have thought those guys were armed or trying to steal vehicles. There's alot of possible reasons they may have responded the way they did. If they were truly just swiping whatever small items they could get their hands on they probably walked within hours of getting caught, im not sure but I think the act of actually breaking into a car still carries a stiffer penalty but if a tweaker just walks up to your unlocked (or topless)vehicle and empties your glove box good luck with him ever doing any prison time. Hell, California just let thousands of hardened criminals doing serious time walk free because of COVID, a few of them have already raped or killed someone...again.
I assume your Google data summary is derived from FBI data compilation which is notoriously incomplete for a variety of reasons, including the fact it relies on incomplete state and local reporting, and not all state statutes align well with the reportIng categories. Oregon, the birth place of the methamphetamine epidemic, has a terrible property crime problem. We also dramatically under-report property crime, because people know the criminal justice system does little to punish it, and insurance recovery isnât contingent on police reports. Also, in Oregon the offense the OP described would be called a âcar cloutâ by police or, more precisely, âUnlawful Entry into a Motor Vehicleâ and âTheft in the First Degreeâ, not car theft â because the Jeep wasnât stolen, itâs contents were. The last time I looked, now several years ago, Lane County, Oregon (the home of Eugene and the University of Oregon) averaged about 20 to 25 car thefts per week, but it wasnât uncommon to have five to ten times that number of car clouts, particularly during the holiday season. Sadly, your chance of having your vehicle clouted in Oregon is quite high, particularly if itâs parked on the street in town overnight.
As someone whose business services insurance business I can tell you that theft of auto and theft from auto are two complete different animals. Virtually no theft from auto is prosecuted. In fact police departments actively discourage formal reporting of theft from auto. Tehy will tell you not to bother since your insurance doesn't usually require a police report. If they do do a report, which is very rare, they are not going to try and lift prints or do any investigation. They are certainly not prosecuted. The term "GTA" is kind of funny, since theft of auto is mostly charged as misdemeanor "taking without possession", and pled even lower. Theft from auto is prosecuted successfully less often and less severely than package theft. Almost no one goes to jail for it.
I canât speak for the rest of the country, but the two statements above are not accurate as to the west coast. There is no misdemeanor car theft statute in Oregon and many other states. Though Oregon and some other states have provisions allowing the prosecutor to prosecute certain felonies as a misdemeanor (by informing the court of the intention at arraignment) the provision is used infrequently, at least in Oregon. Serial car thieves serve a LOT of prison time in Oregon, as the charge is equivalent to burglary of a business under both the statutory structure and the Oregon sentencing guidelines. Again, this is common, but donât know what is done out east.
it is 100%accurate. A whole lot of car theft is pled to "taking without permission"/"Unauthorized use of vehicle." That IS a misdemeanor.
Constructive possession is an issue. Oregon is a rare case because of case law (Oregon v., Briney), but that was a carry decision only, not a possession by prohibited person If Briney had been prohibited he would have had his conviction upheld.
Absolutely. But as I mentioned in a lot of jurisdictions the gun safety laws mandate removing it from the safest place, a proper holster on your person, to leaving it in a car. I am not so sure that even securing it in console by locking it is really meaningful in most cases since once their in they almost always jimmy open the glove box and console box, which takes one second with same punch tool they bust out your window with. An unlocked car, with gun inside unlocked console is indefensible, but getting into a car and the box is not exactly hard.
Youâre wrong. Google and read the statute, ORS 164.135. What we call âUUMVâ in Oregon, is a felony, as it has been since the lawâs inception. Unless the value of the vehicle stolen is elevated to $5,000, $10,000, or more, it is a â2â on the Oregon felony sentencing guidelines, just like Burglary in the second degree. The classification of the crime as a C felony is listed in the statutory text.
Actually, I donât mean that. The crime of UUMV is a felony as a matter of Oregon law. There is no legal mechanism for âchargingâ a felony as a misdemeanor, but there is an infrequently used mechanism for making the reduction at or after sentencing. In 99% or more of the cases âchargingâ is the initial step, not the resolution. Resolution typically (almost always) involves counsel. For most cases that means an attorney has to be appointed at public expense, but such an appointment is made at arraignment on the initial charge which, in this case, is a felony.
