§ 14-71.1. Possessing stolen goods. - North Carolina Statutes

§14‑71.1.  Possessing stolen goods.

If any person shall possessany chattel, property, money, valuable security or other thing whatsoever, thestealing or taking whereof amounts to larceny or a felony, either at common lawor by virtue of any statute made or hereafter to be made, such person knowingor having reasonable grounds to believe the same to have been feloniouslystolen or taken, he shall be guilty of a Class H felony, and may be indictedand convicted, whether the felon stealing and taking such chattels, property,money, valuable security or other thing shall or shall not have been previouslyconvicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice; and any such possessormay be dealt with, indicted, tried and punished in any county in which he shallhave, or shall have had, any such property in his possession or in any countyin which the thief may be tried, in the same manner as such possessor may bedealt with, indicted, tried and punished in the county where he actuallypossessed such chattel, money, security, or other thing; and such possessorshall be punished as one convicted of larceny. (1977, c. 978, s. 1; 1993, c.539, s. 1165; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)