Name That
Crime!
• A boy lived with his father who
had legal custody but the boy
wanted to see his mother. The
father took the boy to his exwife’s apartment. When he
came to pick the boy up, the
mother refused to let him go
home with his father.
• Crime: PC 278 Child Abduction
without Custodial Rights
• Two men argued over the
final results of the football
game. The first man didn’t
think his friend knew what
he was talking about and
spit at him. The spittle
landed on his friend’s shirt.
• Crime: PC 242 Battery
• Gang members
,wandering the
neighborhood, spray
painted their gang mark
on the building walls.
• Crime: PC 594
Vandalism
• A man penetrated a
woman’s vagina with the
barrel of a gun against
her will.
• Crime: PC 289
Penetration with a
Foreign Object
• A man accidentally
brushed against the
breast of a 13-year-old
girl as she passed in a
crowded mall.
• Crime: None – Lacks
intent
• Two men were arguing during a
baseball game. One man
picked up a baseball bat and
swing at the other man. The
second man ducked to avoid
being hit in the head.
• Crime: PC 245 Assault with a
Deadly Weapon
• An adult male made
sexually explicit remarks to
a 17-year-old boy about his
body.
• Crime: PC 647.6 Annoying/
Molesting Children
• An adult baby sitter was angry
at the 7-year-old for whom she
was caring. She punished him
by making him stand in a closed
closet knowing he was afraid of
the dark.
• Crime: PC 273a Child
Endangerment
• A male high school student
pushed a female high
school student up against a
locker and reached into her
blouse and fondled her bare
breasts.
• Crime: PC 243.4 Sexual
Battery
• A senile, 67-year-old woman
repeatedly demanded her
daughter brush her hair.
Her daughter became
frustrated and hit her
repeatedly with the brush.
• Crime: PC 368 Elder Abuse
• A man drank a bottle of
alcohol while sitting in a
bar. At one point, he was
so intoxicated he fell on the
floor and couldn’t get up.
• Crime: PC 647(f) Public
Intoxication
• Knowing a female victim
was intoxicated and
unable to give consent, a
man had intercourse
with her.
• Crime: PC 261 Rape
• To teach the child not to
play with matches, the adult
baby sitter held a match to
the child’s hand until a
blister was formed.
• Crime: PC 273d Child
Abuse
• A woman was found
trying to break into her
neighbor’s home by
using a credit card to
jimmy the lock on the
front door.
• Crime: PC 459 Burglary
• A man wanted to date a coworker. One day in the
company parking lot, he saw
her next to her car with a flat
tire. He offered to give her a
ride to the gas station. When
she refused, he grabbed her,
shoved her into the car and
drove away.
• Crime: PC 207 Kidnapping
• A man penetrated another
man’s anus with his
fingers against his will.
• Crime: PC 289 Penetration
with a Foreign Object
• Smith and her ex-husband have been
divorced for years but she never liked
the terms of her divorce granting
them joint custody on alternating
weeks. She decided to take the
children to Europe for three weeks.
Her ex-husband objected saying it
would interfere with his custody
rights. Smith took the children to
Europe anyway.
• Crime: PC 278 Child Abduction with
Custodial Rights
• An adult female talked a 13year-old boy into kissing
her. She then placed his
hand on her breast.
• Crime PC 288a Lewd and
Lascivious Act with a Child
• A mother left her child in
an unventilated vehicle
on a 90-degree day while
she ran into the
supermarket.
• Crime: PC 273a Child
Endangerment
• A boy was walking toward his
school wearing a new school
jacket. Two older boys stepped in
front of him and demanded he
hand over the jacket. The boy
refused and tried to walk away.
The older boys knocked him down
and took the jacket off of him and
ran away with it.
• Crime: PC 211 Robbery
• A 21-year-old male had
consensual sexual
intercourse with his
family’s 16-year-old
babysitter.
• Crime: PC 261.5 Unlawful
Sexual Intercourse
• Two 18-year-olds were
stopped for speeding.
During a routine vehicle
check, officers discover the
vehicle has been reported
stolen.
• Crime: VC 10851 Stolen
Vehicle
• One night a woman entered her
ex-boyfriend’s home through an
open window and waited for
him to come home. When he
arrived, she began professing
her undying love. When she
refused to leave, he called the
police.
• Crime: PC 602 Trespass
• A man and woman were arguing
on the way to the movies. The
woman wanted him to stop the
car so she could get out. He
continued to drive to the closest
safe location and dropped her
off.
• Crime: None; she willing got in
the car
• A man restrained a male victim
and pulled his pants off while
stating his intent to sodomize
the victim. The victim, however,
was stronger and fought the
man off.
• Crime: PC 220/286(c) Assault
with intent to commit sodomy.
• A homeless man sat on a
park bench. When women
walked past, he would rub
his genitals and say, “Hey
baby, check this out.”
• Crime: PC 647a Lewd
Conduct
• A homeless man entered an
unlocked camper in a
campground hoping to find
cash to buy food. After entering
and looking around, he changed
his mind and left, only to be
seen by a ranger who detained
him.
• Crime: PC 459 Burglary
• A man walked by a group of
women standing on a corner.
One woman called out to him
and offered to take him to a
room and perform multiple
sex acts for $100.
• Crime: PC 647(b) Prostitution
• A woman was driving
through a state park.
She threw her lit
cigarette out the window
and into dry brush
causing a fire.
• Crime: PC 451 Arson
• A young woman is given an
expensive diamond necklace by
her boyfriend who brags he
bought it on sale for $100. The
woman suspects it is stolen but
keeps it anyway.
• Crime: PC 496 Possession of
Stolen Property
• A woman sneaked
into a home and
exposed herself to the
occupants.
• Crime: PC 314
Indecent Exposure
• A female, shopping in the mall,
returns to her vehicle to
discover the window was
broken and recently purchased
items were taken. She had
locked the car before going into
the mall.
• Crime: PC 459 Vehicle
• A woman was sitting in her
car at a red light. The
driver’s side door was
opened and a man pulled
her from the car and drove
off with it.
• Crime: PC 215 Carjacking
• A man lured his ex-girlfriend
into his car and then locked the
doors to keep her from leaving.
He wouldn’t unlock the doors
until she promised to meet him
for a date that weekend.
• Crime: PC 236 False
Imprisonment
• A man was terminated from
his job. That night he
returned to the job site and
poured gasoline on the front
door of the business. He
struck a match and set fire to
the business.
• Crime: PC 451 Arson
• Parents disciplined their 12year-old son by restricting
him to his bedroom for a
week except for meals.
• Crime: None; Situation
lacks danger, suffering,
harm
• Two men in a gay bar were
talking and dancing. One
man offered to pay the other
for sex and money
exchanged hands.
• Crime: PC 647(b)
Prostitution
• At around two in the morning
a man wandered around
outside a house not in his
neighborhood. He looked
into several windows and
stopped at one where he saw
a child sleeping.
• Crime: PC 647(i) Peeping
• A transient, looking for a
place to sleep, saw a bed
in an open garage. He
entered through the
open doorway and fell
asleep on the bed.
• Crime: PC 602 Trespass
• A father whipped his son
with a belt with such force
that the next day the school
nurse saw redness and the
outline of a belt on his back.
• Crime: PC 273d Child
Abuse
• A man had an argument
with his neighbor. Later, he
threw turpentine on the
hood of his neighbor’s car
causing $900 damage to the
paint.
• Crime: PC 594 Vandalism
• A homeless man sat on a
park bench and drank wine
out of a bottle in a brown
paper bag. After a while, he
passed out.
• Crime: PC 647(f) Public
Intoxication
• A man climbed a tree and
looked around using his
binoculars. He looked toward a
nearby building and noticed
that a window opened into a
bathroom where a woman was
taking a shower.
• Crime: PC 647(k) Invasion of
Privacy
• A mother spanked her 7year-old with an open hand
for biting another child.
There was no lingering
mark or lasting pain.
• Crime – None; Lacks the
traumatic condition
• A man stood outside a
public restroom. Every time
a woman walked past him,
he offered to engage in sex.
• Crime: PC 647(d) Loitering
about a Public Toilet
• A woman who does not live
at or know the occupants of
a residence, enters the back
yard looking for something
of value to steal.
• Crime: PC 647(h) Prowling
• A teenage boy was a member of a
band that usually practiced in the
garage in the early evening. One
summer day, they left the garage
door open and continued to play past
midnight. The neighbor asked the
boy to close the garage door, but the
boy refused. The neighbor called the
police.
• Crime: PC 415 Disturbing the Peace
• A man left dangerous
drugs in an area
accessible to his child.
• Crime: PC 273a Child
Endangerment
• A woman performed oral
sex on a severely retarded
man who was unable to
understand the act.
• Crime: PC 288a Lewd and
Lascivious Act
• A woman arrived at a garden
party and put her purse on a
table in the house. The next
morning, she discovered the
gun she carried in her purse
was gone. The gun was
valued at $125.
• Crime: PC 487 Grand Theft