For local law enforcement, pursuing even low-tech, small-time thieves is often complicated and expensive.

Quentin, a dim-witted small-time thief, holds up a foreign exchange booth.

A few of them are small-time thieves.

Was she a small-time thief with dashed dreams or an expert con artist?

After their wedding, two small-time thieves break into the house and steal their gifts and other objects.

Set in the near future, a small gang of revolutionary students are hidden away by a small-time thief.

He'd been running the ship lanes as a small-time thief and had managed to save enough money for a three-day stay.

But his friend is only a small-time thief, a burglar.

Things go completely out of control one night soon after as a small-time thief, accused of stealing a small radio, is brought into custody.

I'm surrounded by drug addicts, small-time thieves, gang members, arsonists, a few murderers.