While still being a criminal he usually operates as the mastermind behind gangs rather that a common crook.

Let's see if they're political prisoners or common crooks.

Three more are common crooks your cops will recognize.

This fellow's a common crook!

The noteworthiness, or infamy, he brought to his state and to conservatism was rooted in the charge that he was a common crook.

He turned out to be a con artist, a common crook.

Raymond Jensen was just a common crook who would do anything to get anything he wanted, including murder.

Well, you can't browbeat me and trap me as though I was a common crook.

"It means we're not dealing with some common crook," Joe told him.

"Well, if he's hot a common crook, then who is he?"