Not hard to become a “felon” these days.
I guess he has to be kept away from women and children, for fear he might commit fraud in front of them./s
In Robin Hood’s legendary days, all the “felons” who failed to pay the taxes imposed by Richard I and collected by Prince John in his absence, took to the forests to evade the Sheriff whose office was purchased from one or the other. Were they “vigilantes,” too?
Hopkins probably did some “aggravated felony jay-walking / littering”, too.