"Steal Men" & "Stealers"

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Those wacky New Yorkers!  The odd word usements they structure!

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> "Steal men" and "stealers"? Are these terms used locally?
> What about "thieves"?
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> (GOOGLE NEWS)
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> _Operation Biker Boyz Breaks Up Alleged Theft  Ring_
> (http://www.nysun.com/article/32177)
> New York  Sun, NY -  <NOBR>13 ho
> ... "The Biker Boyz were nothing if not brazen," Police
> Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. ... The "stealers" would get
>  about $2,500 for each bike they stole. ...
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> 4 May 2006, METRO NY, "NYPD busts 'Biker Boyz,'" pg.  2:
> Lengel, who also worked at a scaffolding company in Long
> Island  City, paid
> 17 alleged "steal men" about $2,500 for each motorcycle--and
> then  resold them for as much as $16,000, Kelly  said.
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