Set a thief to catch a thief

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Prov. The best person to catch a thief is another thief, because he or she knows how thieves think. The government set a thief to catch a thief, hiring a stockbroker convicted of fraudulent practices to entrap the stockbroker they were investigating for fraud.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Pen	PEN	English
Soile	-	Finnish
Amnon	-	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew
Sa'ida	-	Arabic
Martirio	mahr-TEE-ryo	Spanish
Caradoc	-	Welsh