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(1) Every person who with intent to deprive or defraud the owner thereof:

(a) Shall take, lead, or carry away the property of another; or

(b) Shall obtain from the owner, or another, the possession of or title to any personal property by color or aid of any fraudulent or false representation, personation, or pretense, or by any trick, device, bunco game or fortune telling; or

(c) Having received any property by reason of a mistake, shall, with knowledge of such a mistake, secrete, withhold or appropriate the same to his or her own use, or to the use of any person other than the true owner or person entitled thereto, steals such property and is guilty of theft.

(2) Theft as defined under this section is a gross misdemeanor. [Ord. 3488 § 3, 2001; Code 1970 § 9.34.010.]