burglary
爆窃,入室盗窃,盗窃,入室偷窃
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plural bur·gla·ries.Criminal Law.
- : the felony of breaking into and entering the house of another at night with intent to steal, extended by statute to cover the breaking into and entering of any of various buildings, by night or day.
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After the death of Tess’s grandmother, the mother and daughter rummage through grandma’s belongings, finding hints of “deep-rooted family secrets” about burglaries and lost treasure near the Canadian border.
Then 29, she began a 20-year sentence for burglary and car theft as part of a crime ring that stashed hundreds of stolen items in a suburban Colorado storage unit.
The girl speaks about her grandmother and a mysterious past, explaining that she’s found secrets about her grandma, like the mention of a burglary ring and “some sort of lost fortune.”
He was released from prison three months ago — he served 20 years for armed burglary — then met Winestock.
In statistical models that did identify a significant relationship between undocumented immigration and crime, we found undocumented immigration reduces property crimes, such as burglary.
The more accomplished students took classes in safe-cracking, burglary, blackmail, and confidence games.
Identified only as Darius, the teen has been arrested for burglary several times in recent weeks.
The trip was bankrolled by low-level Miami gangster Raul Pacheco, himself already on probation for attempted armed burglary.
They were arraigned in Manhattan criminal court on charges of burglary, reckless endangerment and jumping from a structure.
Burglary, something he hated, seemed to be the only way to find evidence.
As he was relating an account of a desperate , I asked him what he would have done if the man of the house had awakened.