Usually means: Commonly expected or implicated individuals.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (usual suspects)

noun:  (law, crime, criminology, often ironic) The people, often scapegoats, routinely arrested in response to a crime.
noun:  (by extension, informal) The people or things that would be routinely expected to appear in a particular context.

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