The Jim Trick

Your savant-like knowledge of the streets grants you the ability to evade sticky situations involving local authorities.  As an action, you can attempt to mislead or misdirect up to two humanoid targets who catch you doing something illegal by invoking a fictional person - "Jim" (i.e. "Do you know Jim? Or does Jim know you?) to throw them off your scent. Roll Charisma versus the target(s) Wisdom. On a failure, the target is charmed for the duration, giving you advantage on Charisma (Deception, Persuasion) checks and their Intelligence and Wisdom modifiers are nullified for the duration. If the target succeeds, the spell has no effect, but they are not aware that you tried to charm them.

This spell automatically fails if you are caught committing a serious crime (i.e. murder). The severity of the crime is at the DM's discretion, and this spell does not automatically absolve you of any wrongdoing in the authority's eyes. This cantrip can be used twice per long rest.

This spell can be used on more targets at higher levels - four targets at level 3, six targets at level 5, and eight targets at level 7.

"Everybody knows someone named Jim, right? So when he gets in shit for something he just throws the name Jim out there and he figures somebody will pick up on it; Gives him an in, and then he's home free."