Colorado Law has a provision in its criminal statutes that allows law enforcement or the District Attorney’s office to combine 2 or more allegations of theft into a single count. The significance of combining 2 or more allegations of theft into a single count is that the class of crime can be increased to a felony when the individual acts may be misdemeanors by themselves.
Colorado Revised Statute 18-4-401 (4) Penalties for committing more than one theft in Colorado
(4) (a) When a person commits theft twice or more within a period of six months, two or more of the thefts may be aggregated and charged in a single count, in which event the thefts so aggregated and charged shall constitute a single offense, and, if the aggregate value of the things involved is one thousand dollars or more but less than twenty thousand dollars, it is a class 4 felony; however, if the aggregate value of the things involved is twenty thousand dollars or more, it is a class 3 felony.
(b) When a person commits theft twice or more against the same person pursuant to one scheme or course of conduct, the thefts may be aggregated and charged in a single count, in which event they shall constitute a single offense, and, if the aggregate value of the things involved is one thousand dollars or more but less than twenty thousand dollars, it is a class 4 felony; however, if the aggregate value of the things involved is twenty thousand dollars or more, it is a class 3 felony.
