P works for a cleaning company, Busy Brooms, who cleans houses and offices. P has devised a clever plan to steal valuable items from a house she is tasked to clean. P gathers a few valuable items in the house, puts it in a bag and hides the bag underneath a bed in the house with the intention to come and collect the bag the next day while the homeowner is at work. That very same evening the homeowner discovers the bag with valuable items underneath the bed in her house. She immediately calls Busy Brooms and P is arrested before she can go and collect the bag the next day.

a.

P commits attempted theft because the negative component of the act of appropriation was missing when she was arrested.

b.

P commits theft and fraud.

c.

P commits attempted theft because the intention to commit an act of appropriation was missing when she was arrested.

d.

P commits theft.