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Yes and no. Lets pretend you break into a pharmacy at night. You damage the windows, perhaps went in and disabled the alarm first. You stole some goods and some drugs.

In a lot of countries, this is considered a single criminal act. You might have broken numerous laws, but you would wind up with one charge, with the others more circumstances of your guilt and punishment. You'd only get another charge if you left the place and committed a different criminal act.

In the US, however, it is quite possible for you to get charged with numerous crimes. Breaking and entering, destruction of property, some sort of hacking law (for the security system), and a drug law or two, including possession of a controlled substance (or dealing a controlled substance). All of the charges would have their own penalties and fines, though they may be part of the same criminal proceeding.




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