Legal Question in Criminal Law in Washington

Re: Being charged for a crime in two differente state's , for the same crime?

Theft is the actual taking of property from it's rightful owner. While it's true that one who takes the property also possesses it, the converse is not not necessarily so. One can possess property that was taken by someone else.

If the person who steals the property then transports it to another state, he is only committing the crime of possessing stolen property in the latter state, since the actual theft occurred in another jurisdiction.

Then . . . there are laws specifically dealing with trafficking in stolen property.