Sentence examples for local thief from inspiring English sources

What connected these discrete links, from the local thief to the London auction house, was photographs.

It can eat through anything and is coveted by a local thief The Hard Way: Directed by Michael Dryhurst in 1979, it stars Patrick McGoohan as a rural hitman hired by an American financier, Lee Van Cleef.

Upon returning, Mario encounters Mallow, a "tadpole" who has lost a frog coin to Croco, a local thief.

He later obtained money by passing a forged cheque for £93 and he had helped a local thief, Samuel "Beauty" Smith, steal a pig from a neighbouring village.

Emory always seems to get away with murder, perhaps literally, while the Hutchinses are suspected of everything; one of them may even be the local underwear thief known as the panty pervert.

There are so many other options open to you: wage slave, failed artist, cowboy plumber, petty thief, local weirdo.

According to local police, the thief reportedly used a custom-made tool similar to a fishing rod to steal the undergarments.

Another way to think of this is that you are a thief and the local jewelry store has a security system that turns you away half the time you try to rob it.

Local news media said the thief escaped with the stolen jewels in a briefcase.

But a student in Taiwan took her pettiness to an entirely new level, reporting an in-house yogurt thief to the local cops, and demanding they launch an investigation.

A Portuguese minister was robbed at knifepoint in Ipanema, though locals helped police catch the thief.