A lawyer was charged on Friday with stealing $85,000 from a client.
Tyrone Pyfrom, 57, of Windsor Road, was arraigned before Magistrate Guillemina Archer.
Pyform was arraigned on charges stemming from a real estate transaction involving a condominium sale, according to the prosecutor.
Police allege that the crime took place in New Providence between January 5 and March 2, 2011.
Pyform was also charged with fraud by breach of trust.
It is alleged that Pyfrom dishonestly appropriated the $85,000 between January 5 and April 2.
The lawyer was not required to enter a plea to the charges.