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| Currency for which serial numbers are recorded and that is placed so it can be added to any robbery loot. |
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| Taking a motor vehicle from a person by force or threat of force. |
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| Bundle of currency containing a colored dye and tear gas. Taken during a robbery, it is activated when the robber crosses an electromagnetic field at the facility's exit, staining the money with brightly colored dye and emitting a cloud of colored smoke. |
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| Felonious taking of another's property, either directly from the person or in the person's presence, through force or intimidation. |
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| Psychological phenomenon where hostages bear no ill feelings toward the hostage takers and fear the police more than their captors. |
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| Opening a safe using cotton, primer cap, copper wire and nitroglycerine. |
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| Unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft. |
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| Opening a safe using a burn bar or other safecracking device to burn a hole into a safe to gain entry. |
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| Opening a safe by chopping a hole in the bottom of the safe large enough to remove the contents. |
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| One that involves churches, schools, barns, public buildings, shops, offices, stores, factories, warehouses, stables, ships and railroad cars. |
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| Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) |
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| Altering physical characteristics of a property so as to make it less attractive to criminals, for example, removing dense shrubbery next to windows and doors, improving lighting, and closing garage doors. |
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| Go-between who receives stolen goods for resale. |
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| Theft in which a window is smashed to steal mechandise. |
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| Opening a safe by drilling a hole in a corner of the safe and then making this hole successively larger by using other drills until the narrow end of a jimmy can be inserted in the hole to pry the door partially open. |
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| Provides a reasonable basis for belief. |
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| Opening a safe by inserting a V plate behind the dial and tightening screw bolts on the edges of the V plate until the dial and the spindle are pulled out. This method, the opposite of punching, works on many older safes but not on newer ones. |
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| Opening a safe by shearing the dial from the safe door by a downward blow with a sledge or by holding a chisel to the dial and using a sledge to knock it off, exposing the safe mechanism spindle. |
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| Occurs in buildings, structures, or attachments that are used as or are suitable for dwellings, even though they may be unoccupied at the time of the burglary. |
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| Crime results from the convergence of three elements in time and space: A presence of likely or motivated ofenders; a presence of suitable targets; and an absence of guardians to prevent the criminal act. |
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| Semiportable strongbox with combination lock. |
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| IN burglary, breaking a window and taking items from the window display. |
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| Altering physical characteristics of a property to make it less attractive to criminals; also called CPTED |
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| Stationary security chamber of reinforced concrete, often steel-lined, with a combination lock. |
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| Procedure implemented by some law enforcement agencies, whereby they will not respond to a burglary alarm unless criminal activity is first confirmed through either an onsite security officer or some method of electronic surveillance, such as CCTV. |
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| Auto body shop that disassembles stolen vehicles and sells the parts. |
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| Made interstate transportation of a stolen motor vehicle a federal crime and allowed for federal assistance in prosecuting such cases. |
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| Any self-propelled device for moving persons property or pulling implements, whether operated on land, water or air. Includes automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles, motor scooters, mopeds, snowmobiles, vans, self-propelled watercraft and aircraft. |
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| Transfer data between a remote vehicle and a host computer, such as with bait cars. |
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| Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) |
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| Primary nonduplicated, serialized number assigned by the manufacturer to each vehicle manufactured. Formerly called serial number or motor vehicle identification number. |
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| Large gnarly root at the base of walnut trees, sought after by tree "rustlers." |
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| Obtains money or property by a trick, device or swindle that takes advantage of a victim's trust in the swindler. The confidence game offers a get-rich-quick scheme. |
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| Billing consumers for unauthorized, misleading, or deceptive charges, such as a personal 800 number, paging and voicemail. |
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| Fradaulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it was entrusted. |
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| Thieves who go around neighborhoods hitting mailboxes with their flags upm searching for envelopes containing checks and other forms of payment. |
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| Maximum dollar amount that may be paid with a check or credit card without authorization from the central office. |
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| Telephone rates are increased without notification. |
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| Signing someone else's name to a document or altering the name or amount on a check or document with the intent to defraud. |
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| Intentional deception to cause a person to give up property or some lawful right. |
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| Property, including anything that is tangible and has value; for example, gas, clothing, money, food. |
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| Companies charging undisclosed fees when calls are made from pay phones or hotel rooms. |
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| Felony based on the substantial value of the property stolen. |
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| Person to whom a credit or debit card is issued. |
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| Criminal act of assuming someone else's identity for some type of gain, normally financial. |
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| Third and final step in the money laundering cycle, where criminals repatriate their money through seemingly legitimate business transactions. |
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| Setting up roadblocks to make it difficult to switch in-state long distance. |
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| Unlawful taking, crayying, leading or riding away of property from another's possession. |
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| Second step in the money laundering process, where the money is cleaned by moving it around through a series of elaborate transactions, often involving offshore bank accounts and international business companies or IBCs. |
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| The illegal or unauthorized removal of carge from the supply chain; a concept similar to that of shrinkage. |
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| Schemes in which the victims are strung along and allowed to win several small stakes before being convinced to place the "big bet," in which they inevitably lose far more than they had won previously sent for whatever money they can raise. |
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| Converting illegally earned (dirty) cash to one or more alternative forms (clean) to conceal its illegal origin and true ownership. |
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| Pursing civil and criminal sanctions at the same time. |
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| A misdemeanor based on the value of the property stolen. |
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| First step in the process of laundering money that inserts the ill-gotten funds into the legitimate U.S. market; common methods include smurfing (technically known as structuring) whereby large amounts of cash are broken into increments less than $10,000, to avoid federal reporting requirements, and deposited into various bank accounts. |
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| Illegally taking or possessing fish, game or other wildlife, including deer, elk, bear, pheasant, ducks, wild turkeys and grouse. |
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| Pyramid-type fraud scheme, named after Charles Ponzi, that involves using capital from new investors to pay off earlier investors, requiring an ever-expanding base of new investors to support the financial obligations to the existing "higher hups," which, eventually and inevitably, will collapse. |
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| All forms of tangible property, real and personal, including valuable documents, electricity, gas, water, heat and animals. |
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| Practice whereby an offenders buy a property near its estimated market value, artificially inflates the property value through a false appraisal, and then resells (flips) the property, often within days of the original purchase, for a greatly increased price. Although flipping per se is not illegal, it often involve mortage fraud, which is illegal. |
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| Victims are taken for whatever money they have on their person at the time of the swindle. |
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| Unexplained or unauthorized reduction of inventory from a retail establishment. |
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| The unauthorized switch of a long-distance carrier. |
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| Occurs when an unauthorized carrier switches a specific call from the long-distance carrier. |
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| More technically known as structuring, it is a method of money laundering whereby large amounts of cash are broken into increments less that $10,000, to avoid federal reporting requirements, and deposited into various bank accounts. |
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| Business0related or occupational crime; for example, embezzlement, computer crimes, bribery, pilferage. Also called corporate crime or economic crime. |
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| Requirement that all transaction by credit card be authorized. |
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| Substances that cause fires to burn faster and hotter. |
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| Official permission to inspect property to determine compliance with city regulations; for example compliance with fire codes. |
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| Intentionally destroying or damaging a dwelling or other property, real or personal, by means of fire or explosives, creating an imminent danger to life or great bodily harm, which risk was known or reasonably forseeable to the suspect. |
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| Checking charred wood giving the appearance of alligator skin. Large, rolling blisters indicate rapid, intense heat; small, flat blisters indicate slow, less intense heat. |
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| Malicious, willful burning of a building or property. |
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| Visible evidence of the effects of heating or partial burning. |
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| Formation of irregular cracks in glass due to rapid, intense heat; can indicate arson or the use of an accelerant. |
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| How deeply wood is burned. |
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| Devices that use gunpowder to fire a jet of water or a projectile at a particular component of an explosive to make it safe. |
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| Three elements necessary for a substance to burn: heat, fuel and air. |
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| Substances or devices used to start a fire. |
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| Boundary between charred and uncharred material. |
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| Intentionally causing naother person to fear immediate bodily harm or death or intentionally inflicting or attempting to inflict bodily harm on another. Usually a misdemeanor. |
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| Breaking off of surface pieces of concrete, cement or brick because of intense heat. |
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| Firefighters who set fires to become heroes in putting them out. |
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| Path, consisting of paper, hay, flammable compounds or any other substance that burns, that is set down for a fire to follow; indicates arson. |
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