Property is stolen, then seen at Pawn Shop.Shop refused to give back property. Man buys it then cancels cheque?
Well this is an interesting one. First of all, the pawn shop could be prosecuted for receiving stolen property if they had any knowledge it was stolen, or even if they were reckless in determining whether the item was stolen. Normally, if it was just some random person who bought the stuff from someone and sold it not knowing it was stolen, they would be fine, but pawn shops are highly regulated industries and so they should have had provisions in place to cross-check whether things were stolen. So let’s say the pawn shop knew or should have known the property was stolen. If the guy was the lawful owner, he could have just grabbed it and ran and not been found guilty of larceny. (Unless he used a gun or something, but then that would be totally different because it would be robbery or assault.) So here, even though he didn’t use a gun, he used a “check.” And writing a bad check on purpose is totally separate. If checks were non-transferrable and nobody else was involved when checks are
