the police threatened to charge terry with receiving stolen property but he was as clever as a cart load of monkeys and pointed out that none of the items had been reported stolen.
警方威胁说要指控特里接受了被偷来的财物,但他非常狡猾,指出没有一件东西是被报案失窃的。
nobody can say for sure how many animals like flash are ‘rescued’ every year – receiving stolen property is a crime, so rescuers tend to stay in the shadows.