Which of the following statements about larceny is false? Which of the following statements about larceny is false? The FBI records about 5 million acts of larceny annually. Both the UCR and NCVS depict a steady increase in the number and rate of larcenies during the past decade. Most US state criminal codes separate larceny into petit and grand larceny. The original definition of larceny did not include the misappropriation of goods by trickery or deceit