"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than bad company."

George Washington

Its's better off to be alone than hang with bad people because not only you could go to jail your "friends" would bail out on you making you to take the fall. What can be more worse is that if you have clean record and a future that even worse if you hang-out with those kind of people your dreams would disappear