“After becoming an expert pickpocket, he organizes a gang of thieves, whose goods he receives and sells at a huge profit to himself.”

“Travelers, long beleaguered by pickpockets and con artists, are increasingly targeted by identity thieves.”

“The station is regarded as a high-risk area frequented by pickpockets and thieves.”

“He must be capable of entertaining politicians, industrialists, the unemployed, pickpockets, gamblers, philanthropists, popsies and prudes.”