Theft And Theft

New Jersey police charged one lone Sears clerk for stealing —and then trying to sell —$3.7 million worth of goods from a warehouse, The Daily Mail reported on Monday.

The publication said Kim Watson, 32, was arrested on Friday and allegedly sold high-end merchandise from the Sears Distribution Center in Logan Township, New Jersey. An investigation found items from bedding to kitchen appliances missing from the warehouse.

Police believe the merchandise was sold to a network working around the tri-state area. Watson was charged with second degree theft.

Aside from the fact that you could find $3.7M worth of stuff in a Sears warehouse, what sticks out is that $3.7M only gets you second degree theft charge. What could it take to get a first degree charge?

Well, according to the Warren Law Firm, in New Jersey, 2nd degree theft is anything above $75K.

What does that leave for first degree?

The property stolen is human remains or any part thereof; except that, if the human remains are stolen by deception or falsification of a document by which a gift of all or part of a human body may be made pursuant to P.L.2008, c.50 (C.26:6-77 et al.), the theft constitutes a crime of the first degree.

Heh. Eew.