Tag: bike thefts

January 5, 2016

SPD: How an officer recovered a stolen mountain bike in Cal Anderson

Seattle Police Officer Drew Fowler was on bike patrol in Cal Anderson Park Saturday when he spotted a high-end mountain bike in the hands of a suspected thief. Officer Fowler stopped the man and asked if he could have a look at the bike’s serial number. The man let him, according to Seattle Police, and…
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tagged: bike index, bike thefts, capitol hill, drew fowler, spd, stolen bike recoveries
December 1, 2015

With the problem on the rise, UW Police host a Bike Theft Symposium

Bike theft is up, at least on UW campus. “It’s our number one property crime on campus,” said UW Police Deputy Chief Csaba Maczala. “That’s a good thing, since violent crime is down. So I’m glad we most have to deal with property crime.” So the UW Police reached out to community partners and hosted…
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tagged: bike index, bike theft symposium, bike thefts, cindi west, crime, csaba maczala, keith jackson, kendra borzio, project 529, q13, spd, uwpd
August 10, 2015

SPD busts bike theft ring, finds stolen pistol

After Seattle Police staged a sting to recover a stolen bicycle posted for sale on Craigslist a few weeks ago, they pushed the lead further and found even more stolen bikes and even a stolen handgun, according to the SPD Blotter. The bust began in late July when detectives staged a Craigslist deal with a…
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tagged: bike thefts, craigslist, OfferUp, spd
August 3, 2015

Community unites to buy honest stolen bike buyer an even better ride

What started as yet another stolen bike story morphed into a wonderful tale of a guy who simply did the right thing and a community that came together to thank him … and then some. Yang bought a $500 bike on OfferUp — a free classifieds website based in Bellevue that has become a hotbed…
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tagged: bike index, bike thefts, brock howell, stolen bike recoveries, yang
June 10, 2015

Map: Where bikes are getting stolen + How Bike Index is changing the bike theft game

Bike theft has been crazy so far this spring. Or at least it seems that way. Seattle Police received 581 stolen bike reports January through May, according to police report data at data.seattle.gov. But though that is a ton of bikes, that’s actually fewer than the 809 reports during the same period in 2014. But…
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tagged: bike index, bike thefts, bryan hance, cindi west
May 19, 2015

Bike theft hero spots stranger’s ride, returns it during victim’s costumed birthday bike ride

Seattle has a new hero, and her name is Alex Cruse. Alex was in a car in Wallingford with her fiancée and soon-to-be father-in-law when she spotted an orange and white All-City Macho Man bike near an apparent homeless encampment just off Northlake Way. Amazingly, she remembered seeing the bike listed on Bike Index, an…
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tagged: alex cruse, bike index, bike thefts, fremont, wallingford, zanna furness