Don't tell anybody your character is a criminal OOCly because whether they do it consciously or not, they know what kind of a character to expect from you. If you do that, their character's "intuition" can't kick in because usually a player's intuition isn't as good as their character's. It also kind of goes without saying that if you don't want people to know that your character's a criminal then you shouldn't write it in the search bubble that everybody looks at when they first see your character.
