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U.S. v. TOWNS

No. 87-5602.

842 F.2d 740 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Alexander TOWNS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 29, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell P. Butler (Keiffer, Ditrani, Johnston, Butler & Reinstein, Camp Springs, Md., on brief), for defendant-appellant.

Hollis Raphael Weisman, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Breckinridge L. Willcox, U.S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WIDENER and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges, and McMILLAN, United States District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question of whether the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) is an agency of the United States so that theft from the AAFES causes the government to suffer an actual property loss, subjecting the person accused of the theft to prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 641.1 We conclude that AAFES is an agency of the United States, and a theft of its property causes property loss to the United...

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