§ 14:69 — Illegal possession of stolen things

Louisiana § 14:69

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 14: Criminal Law

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§69. Illegal possession of stolen things
A. Illegal possession of stolen things is the intentional possessing, procuring,
receiving, or concealing of anything of value which has been the subject of any robbery or
theft, under circumstances which indicate that the offender knew or had good reason to
believe that the thing was the subject of one of these offenses.
B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of illegal possession of stolen things, when the
value of the things is twenty-five thousand dollars or more, shall be imprisoned at hard labor
for not more than twenty years, or may be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, or both.
(2) When the value of the stolen things is five thousand dollars or more, but less than
a value of twenty-five thousand dollars, the offender shall be imprisoned, with or without
hard labor, for not more than ten years, or may be fined not more than ten thousand dollars,
or both.
(3) When the value of the stolen things is one thousand dollars or more, but less than
a value of five thousand dollars, the offender shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labor,
for not more than five years, or may be fined not more than three thousand dollars, or both.
(4) When the value of the stolen things is less than one thousand dollars, the offender
shall be imprisoned for not more than six months or may be fined not more than one
thousand dollars, or both. If the offender in such cases has been convicted of theft two or
more times previously, upon any subsequent conviction, he shall be imprisoned, with or
without hard labor, for not more than two years, or may be fined not more than two thousand
dollars, or both.
C. When the offender has committed the crime of illegal possession of stolen things
by a number of distinct acts, the aggregate of the amount of the things so received shall
determine the grade of the offense.
D. It shall be an affirmative defense to a violation of this Section committed by
means of possessing, that the accused, within seventy-two hours of his acquiring knowledge
or good reason to believe that a thing was the subject of robbery or theft, reports that fact or
belief in writing to the district attorney in the parish of his domicile.
E. No person shall be exempt from prosecution under this Section for any act
committed with fraudulent, willful, or criminal knowledge regardless of any other
presumption or exemption provided by statute, including but not limited to any signed
statement of ownership executed by a purported owner of property conveyed.

Legislative History

Amended by Acts 1972, No. 654, §1; Acts 1982, No. 552, §1; Acts 1999, No. 338, §1; Acts 1999, No. 1251, §1; Acts 2001, No. 944, §4; Acts 2006, No. 83, §1; Acts 2010, No. 585, §1; Acts 2015, No. 137, §1, eff. June 19, 2015; Acts 2017, No. 281, §1.