The Gang Gets New Wheels
Criminal Activities
Grand theft auto
Unlawful taking or exercise of control over a motor vehicle belonging to another without consent; can include joyriding and/or grand theft depending on value and jurisdiction.
Situation:
"The Gang is in a Range Rover that they did not legitimately purchase (they flee the scene in the vehicle, and police are pursuing them). Dialogue and actions in the episode indicate the group took/used the Range Rover without lawful title or proper purchase/approval and fled—constituting vehicle theft/joyriding."
Hit-and-run
Striking and causing serious injury or death to a person with a vehicle and leaving the scene without rendering aid or notifying law enforcement; can be charged as hit-and-run and, if a death resulted, vehicular manslaughter or homicide under state law.
Situation:
"While fleeing in the Range Rover, members of the Gang state 'I think I killed a kid' and express that a child may have been struck; they continue to flee. The transcript thus records an apparent collision with a person followed by leaving the scene, consistent with a hit-and-run and potentially vehicular manslaughter."
Statutory rape
Engaging in sexual intercourse or sexual acts with a person under the statutory age of consent. Laws and penalties vary by state; if the partner is a minor below the age of consent, the adult may be criminally liable regardless of claimed consent.
Situation:
"Multiple lines of dialogue in the episode explicitly state that Dee 'banged a kid' and reference a teenage character (Aidan) having had sex the previous night. The episode therefore presents Dee as having engaged in sexual activity with a person portrayed as a minor."
Theft
Unauthorized taking and consumption of another person's personal property (petty theft/larceny): intentionally taking possession of property belonging to someone else without that person's consent.
Situation:
"During a confrontation with Shawn Dumont the Gang asserts 'That's our bike' and then proceeds to take/retain the bicycle; dialogue and action indicate they recover/retain the bike by force or by asserting ownership and leaving with it rather than using lawful channels, which would be criminal theft or larceny."