offender

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But police officials said one helpful tool has been a law allowing investigators to aggregate the thefts of a repeat offender at the same store.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Those files exposed a friendship between the convicted sex offender and Peter Mandelson, a Labour Party grandee and Mr. Starmer’s choice for ambassador to Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

A 25-year-old man who had been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released with no further action.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

A 46-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Schirach’s successor, Artur Axmann, was sentenced to thirty-nine months’ imprisonment as a major offender and fined 35,000 marks.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti