D.A.T. stands for Desk Appearance Ticket and is a type of citation given for violations and sometimes misdemeanors. Normally when someone commits a crime and is arrested they are taken down to the police station, fingerprinted, photographed, taken to central booking and locked in a holding cell pending a bail hearing. However if the crime committed is very minor like a violation or an unclassified misdemeanor the person being arrested can be issued a desk appearance ticket; this means after they are fingerprinted and photographed they are released on their own recognizance and do not need to have a bail hearing. However the person being issued the DAT will still have to go to court just like anyone else that is arrested and charged with a crime; the ticket will specify the time and date the individual being issued the DAT will need to appear in court, where they will enter a plea before the judge and be informed of a trial date if they enter a plea of not guilty.
Larceny is a crime that involves theft of property, there are six different types of larceny that one can be charged with in New York state depending on what exactly was stolen and what its value is.
First off there is petite larceny, this is charged when someone steals any type of property, it is a class A misdemeanor. If the property's value exceeds $1,000 or if it's stolen directly off a person, or if it is a credit/debit card or a firearm then it becomes grand larceny in the fourth degree, a class E felony. If the value of the stolen property exceeds $3,000 or if the property stolen is an automated teller machine (or the contents of the machine) it is grand larceny in the third degree, a class D felony. If the value of the stolen property exceeds $50,000 or if the property is obtained by means of extortion it is grand larceny in the second degree, a class C felony. If the value of the stolen property exceeds $1,000,000 it is grand larceny in the first degree, a class B felony. If a person steals an ATM (or its contents) and they have been previously convicted of grand larceny within the past five years they are charged with aggravated grand larceny of an ATM, a class C felony.
First off there is petite larceny, this is charged when someone steals any type of property, it is a class A misdemeanor. If the property's value exceeds $1,000 or if it's stolen directly off a person, or if it is a credit/debit card or a firearm then it becomes grand larceny in the fourth degree, a class E felony. If the value of the stolen property exceeds $3,000 or if the property stolen is an automated teller machine (or the contents of the machine) it is grand larceny in the third degree, a class D felony. If the value of the stolen property exceeds $50,000 or if the property is obtained by means of extortion it is grand larceny in the second degree, a class C felony. If the value of the stolen property exceeds $1,000,000 it is grand larceny in the first degree, a class B felony. If a person steals an ATM (or its contents) and they have been previously convicted of grand larceny within the past five years they are charged with aggravated grand larceny of an ATM, a class C felony.