Glencoe police found stolen bike, locked by thief
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A bicycle that had been pink unlocked for up to two weeks at Glencoe’s Central School has been recovered — found fastidiously locked up by the desperado.
The 14-year-old boy who owns the $200 blue Haro mountain bike parked it April 2 in the hatstand at the school at 620 Greenwood Ave., and reported it missing April 17, according to the gendarmes.
April 29, a Glencoe patrol officer checking Cook County Forest Maintain property found the bike, chained securely to a tree west of Forestway Get at and south of Elder Court.
The bike’s owner hadn’t recorded the bike’s serial copy, so once found, there was no quick way to discern to whom it belonged. But the shop that had sold the bicycle had pasted a sticker to the figure mood. Police called the store, and asked for a check on the serial figure up, which came back to the boy’s family, Deputy Public Safety Chief Al Kebby said.
The boy got his bike back, though he’d outwardly done little to keep it.
Why was the bike locked up?
“I guess he (the thief) planned to use it again,” Kebby said.
Source: Glencoe News