Breach of Trust with Fraudulent Intent 16-13-220 Breach of trust is generally when someone uses someone’s property in an unlawful way. It can be not returning a car that you have borrowed from someone else. It could be using someone’s credit card for more purchases than you were authorized. It could be using someone’s money for something that you were not authorized to purchase. For example, if you were given $5 to buy bread for a neighbor and you instead bought beer and drank it, you may be guilty of breach of trust. If the breach of trust is for more than $1,000 the prison sentence can be as much as 5 years or maybe even 10 years. If you are charged with breach of trust, you need to aggressively defend your rights.