The Storm of the Century
Most Frequent Crime
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.
Criminal Activities
Criminal Threats
Knowingly making a threat to commit a violent act against another person (words or gestures that place a reasonable person in fear of imminent physical harm) can constitute a criminal threat or assault in U.S. jurisdictions. Simple verbal threats that place a victim in reasonable fear may be charged as misdemeanor assault or as a separate criminal-threats offense depending on the jurisdiction.
Situation:
"While transporting Cricket in the car and during heightened panic, Frank repeatedly threatens violence, e.g. 'Don't make me do it, Cricket, I will slice you in half.' This is an explicit threat of severe bodily harm to another person conveyed in a context where it could be perceived as credible."
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:
"At the All American Home Center, the group responds to the credit-card/system outage and the crowd frenzy by saying explicitly 'Let's just start looting' and then actively joining the crowd grabbing merchandise ('Get it, get it, get it'). The transcript shows the main characters encouraging and participating in the theft of store goods."
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:
"When the group is preparing to buy supplies, Mac absconds with the group's cash — 'Mac took off with all our cash!' — leaving the others unable to pay and effectively stealing from them."