The phrase "a criminal in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone who is involved in criminal activity or when referring to a specific context related to crime.
Example: "The detective was determined to catch a criminal in a city known for its high crime rate."
Alternatives: "a felon in a" or "an offender in a".
He said he did not steal the money "like a criminal in a comic book", and acknowledged that the tax should be paid.
I asked Derrick whether, given the difficulty of finding solid information and witnesses willing to testify, he had ever actually caught a criminal in a rap-related crime and had later seen that criminal go to prison.
For starters, the federal government is responsible for the health and welfare of anyone it detains — whether it is a criminal in a prison, a child in its foster-care system or families detained at the border.
The home secretary said that he could have ended up as a criminal in a speech that dwelt on his upbringing on what was dubbed the "most dangerous street in Britain".
The scandals have included a controversial land swap deal and the conviction of a senior government aide for attempting to harbor a criminal in a major drug-dealing case.
"When we keep a criminal in a Mexican prison, we run the risk that one way or another they are going to keep in contact with their criminal network," Leopoldo Velarde, who heads extraditions for the federal attorney general's office, said.
"There is not a criminal in an European gaol, there is not a cannibal in the South Sea Islands," Gladstone wrote, "whose indignation would not rise and overboil" at the Bulgarian killings.
In the real world, they work to help detectives predict the likely characteristics of a criminal in an unsolved case and explain to jurors how evidence left at crime scenes can reveal a killer's motive or modus operandi.
An effective inside man in a criminal organization is also, necessarily, a criminal in good standing — and therefore a dangerous person with whom to be in business.
He added: "We don't want to make it easier to be a terrorist than a criminal in this country".
A criminal in the ring takes out a loan for the higher amount using stolen financial and personal information.
