11.   The hotel suspected a professional thief.

12.   These days, he said, art books are taken by professional thieves.

13.   This tough-guy tale begins when five professional thieves are thrown together in a jail cell as suspects in a truck heist.

14.   While shredders can help prevent the theft of personal information from garbage, professional thieves often steal things like credit card applications in the mail.

15.   In March, professional thieves broke into a bank by drilling holes through three neighboring stores.

16.   Sergio Abdalla, the police chief in charge of the Schering case told reporters he believed the placebos were stolen by professional thieves.