Year In Review: 2009 Scanner Wrap-Up

Curious... what is the difference between a burglary, a theft, and a robbery? Does it have to do with assault or what type of property stolen?

Burglary RCW 9A.52.020: (1) A person is guilty of burglary in the first degree if, with intent to commit a crime against a person or property therein, he or she enters or remains unlawfully in a building and if, in entering or while in the building or in immediate flight therefrom, the actor or another participant in the crime (a) is armed with a deadly weapon, or (b) assaults any person. There's also residential burglary, RCW 9A.52.025.

Theft, RCW 9A.56.020: (1) "Theft" means:

(a) To wrongfully obtain or exert unauthorized control over the property or services of another or the value thereof, with intent to deprive him or her of such property or services; or

(b) By color or aid of deception to obtain control over the property or services of another or the value thereof, with intent to deprive him or her of such property or services; or

(c) To appropriate lost or misdelivered property or services of another, or the value thereof, with intent to deprive him or her of such property or services.

Robbery, RCW 9A.56.190: A person commits robbery when he unlawfully takes personal property from the person of another or in his presence against his will by the use or threatened use of immediate force, violence, or fear of injury to that person or his property or the person or property of anyone. Such force or fear must be used to obtain or retain possession of the property, or to prevent or overcome resistance to the taking; in either of which cases the degree of force is immaterial. Such taking constitutes robbery whenever it appears that, although the taking was fully completed... read more thout the knowledge of the person from whom taken, such knowledge was prevented by the use of force or fear.

Happy New Year 2010 to CD News.

I wonder how many homicides, since I know of at least 2. They are not listed above. Did I miss something?