1.   Habitual petty thieves and drug addicts dumped on top of their already bulging caseload become their newest clients.

2.   They were nothing but petty thieves.

3.   A team of officers is trawling through the records of thousands of petty thieves.

4.   The degeneracy of the family into a gang of petty thieves.

5.   As the frontier evolves, scientists and academicians find themselves sharing space -- and bandwidth -- with lawyers, salesmen, chain-letter hucksters and petty thieves.

6.   Based on a historical figure, Henri Young is a petty thief whose attempt to escape from Alcatraz buys him three years in solitary.

7.   A political prisoner worked as his secretary, and an Indonesian petty thief served as a sort of valet.

8.   Cassandra LaKay Collins is a petty thief, a rape victim, a single mother, a sole household provider.

9.   Court records portray Ismael Vasquez as a petty thief with a drug habit who lost his mother too early.

10.   Dealt with ideological assaults while shuffling an endless series of petty thieves, perverts, streetwalkers and lunatics through the system.