and unnecessary technical statutory and common law distinctions,” Driver v. United States, 521 A.2d 254, 258 (D.C.1987) (citation and quotation omitted), the District created a single statute consolidating the various forms of larceny, false pretenses and embezzlement into a single offense called “theft.” D.C. Code § 22-3811. The new crime punishes one who “wrongfully obtains or uses the property of another” with the requisite intent, D.C. Code § 22-3811(b), and defines the just-quoted phrase as “(1) [tjaking or exercising control over property; (2) making an unauthorized use, disposition ... or possession of property; or (3) obtaining property by trick, false pretense ... or deception.” D.C. Code § 22-3811(a); see also Galberth v. United States, 590 A.2d 990, 991 n. 1 (D.C.1991) (<HOLDING>). Although the District’s 1982 categorization
holding that defendants auto theft conviction could serve to support his conviction for auto theft as a class c felony and as a prior unrelated felony conviction under the habitual offender statute holding automobile exeeption did not apply to warrantless search of vehicle where vehicle was not readily mobile because the vehicle was legally parked in parking lot occupants of vehicle were seated on a bench in the playground near the parking lot police officers surrounded the vehicle and the driver of the vehicle was handcuffed for safety purposes holding that dui conviction merges with aggravat ed assault by vehicle while dui conviction holding that conviction for unauthorized use of vehicle merges with conviction for theft of same vehicle holding proof of possession of stolen goods is sufficient evidence to sustain conviction for theft