perpetrator

Example Sentences

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The 7-Eleven clerk was driven to the site of arrest and identified the two as the perpetrators, the indictment said.

From Los Angeles Times

Currently, no arrests have been made and the perpetrators remain at large.

From BBC

Then, a perpetrator arrived on Dec. 12 to collect the lobster shipment at a Taunton, Mass., cold-storage center, run by a third party, where a Rexing customer was storing the lobster.

From The Wall Street Journal

"What we really want is for the truth and justice to prevail, for the perpetrators to be brought to justice, and for us to have good closure," she said.

From BBC

“It makes it harder for me to convict dangerous felons when … witnesses are getting deported, victims are getting deported, and the defendant or the perpetrator themselves are getting deported,” she said.

From Salon