Bible teaching about thieves: robbery, burglary, shoplifting, looting, petty theft, which is what the. Davis has now been charged with organized fraud and cheating. Joshua Concepcion West, 27, is accused of petit theft and time theft cost employees and employers billions of dollars each year. By 1650 public opinion considered beheading to be an excessively severe punishment for petty theft; use of the gibbet was forbidden. Winona Ryder, the actress whose six-day shoplifting trial drew national attention and stirred tabloid frenzy, was found guilty today of grand theft.