If I take an item that was left outside a Salvation Army Thrift Store after hours is that stealing?

If I take an item that was left outside a Salvation Army Thrift Store after hours is that stealing?

Asked on March 30, 2012 under Criminal Law, New York

Answers:

 A  person steals property and commits larceny when, with intent to  deprive another of property or to appropriate the same to himself or  to  a  third person, he wrongfully takes, obtains or withholds such property  from an owner thereof.

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