This is fun, because I had this exact same experience recently. Well, first off, I think it's a mistake when these kinda blue-collar supervillains like the Wrecking Crew and the Absorbing Man and whatnot who go to jail all the time get charged with more serious crimes than robbing banks and the like. Yes, they can kill and blah blah, but no like, dead schoolbuses like Paul Jenkins tried to blame the Wrecking Crew for in that post-Siege Sentry thing.
Second, it does kind of feel like the thing someone like Ewing, a continuity beast, would address or retcon.
Third, I do think such a thing needs to be done, but until it is I kinda have a No-Prize rewrite for it in my own head.
Fourth, it's possible someone already dealt with it and I'm just buggin' rn in the middle of the light.
Because this is the page that should always define Crusher Creel.