asportation

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Asportation

The removal of items from one place to another, such as carrying things away illegally.

Asportation is one of the elements required to establish the crime of Larceny. In order to prove that asportation has occurred, it is not necessary to show that the goods were moved a substantial distance, but only that they were moved.

Asportation was one of the elements necessary to establish common-law Kidnapping, and in many states it remains as an element of statutory kidnapping.

asportation

carrying away to steal. See, for Scotland, THEFT.

Collins Dictionary of Law © W.J. Stewart, 2006

ASPORTATION. The act of carrying a thing away; the removing a thing from one place to another. Vide Carrying away; Taking.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Loewen, 36, of 336 Water St., third floor, Clinton, shoplifting by asportation, dismissed upon payment of $100 in court costs; operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, dismissed upon payment of $100 in court costs.

District Court Log

104, Clinton, breaking and entering for a misdemeanor, guilty, 55 days in the House of Correction, credit for 55 days; trespassing, dismissed; two counts of shoplifting by asportation, guilty, filed; vandalizing property, dismissed.

Clinton District Court Log

Saballos, 33, of 25 Ball St., Worcester, was arrested on Saturday, June 28, at 4:41 p.m., by officers Timothy Benson and James Dugan and charged with shoplifting by asportation of merchandise.

West Boylston Police Log

and charged with shoplifting by asportation of merchandise, possession of burglarious tools and personal identity fraud.

West Boylston Police Log

Tom Nelson and charged with breaking and entering in the daytime with intent to commit a misdemeanor, trespassing on land, dwelling, house, etc., two counts of shoplifting by asportation of merchandise and malicious/wanton damage.

Clinton Arrests

Smith, 35, of 24 Bourne St., basement, Worcester, shoplifting by asportation, guilty, $150 fine (community service allowed), $50 victim witness assessment.

District Court Log

628, Worcester, shoplifting by asportation, guilty, filed; malicious destruction of property valued over $250, guilty, 53 days in the House of Correction, concurrent with another sentence.