State v. Trainor

The defendant, John Trainor, appeals his conviction after a jury trial in Superior Court {Bean, J.) of attempted theft by deception. RSA 629:1, 637:4. He was sentenced to three to seven years in the State prison. We affirm.

The defendant was the bagman in a so-called “flim-flam” operation. On the morning of September 10, 1986, Brian or Bud Coleman, the owner of a video store in Keene, received a telephone call from a man identifying himself as Jim Collins, a United Parcel Service (UPS) employee. Collins told Coleman that his brother Henry Collins worked for a “large electronic firm,” and had…