We're not dealing with stealing hubcaps, breaking bottles and standing around on street corners.

I'm like a kid that's got a $500 suit on stealing hubcaps.

He doesn't steal hubcaps from tourists passing through town.

He tries to score money for his next fix by stealing hubcaps, purse-snatching, panhandling, and engaging in street gambling.

"Kids who 10 years ago used to steal hubcaps are now into knives and guns."

But in many cases, based on investigations where culprits have actually been tracked down, thefts are simply the adolescent hacker equivalent of stealing hubcaps.

He started smoking, and stealing hubcaps.

At night villagers steal hubcaps, roof tiles from houses, even manhole covers to sell in bazaars across the border.

For a year he stole hubcaps on order, making as much as a hundred dollars a week.

We are no longer talking about juvenile delinquents stealing hubcaps and fashioning zip guns.