(1) A person is guilty of possession of a stolen vehicle if he or she possess [possesses] a stolen motor vehicle.
(2) Possession of a stolen motor vehicle is a class B felony.
Possession of stolen vehicle.
Known as the Washington Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 9A.04.010 to 9A.98.020 (401 sections).
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case State v. Porter (2016)
Most recently applied in Chmukh v. Garland (December 2024)
2007 c 199 s 5.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) A person is guilty of possession of a stolen vehicle if he or she possess [possesses] a stolen motor vehicle.
(2) Possession of a stolen motor vehicle is a class B felony.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.