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Posted on December 1st, 2009 at 7:00 am.
As we mentioned in a story last week, we’re working with the Portland Police Bureau and the guy behind StolenBicycleRegistry.com (Bryan Hance, who happens to live in Portland) to catch more bike thieves.
If all goes according to plan (which it should), local police officers will have live, up-to-the-minute access to all stolen bikes listed both [...]
Posted on November 24th, 2009 at 9:54 pm.
A snipped cable lock spotted a few weeks ago near SE Belmont and 34th.(Photo © Elly Blue)
For some reason there seems to be a rash of bike thefts happening in Portland right now. I just noticed that we’ve had nine bicycles listed as stolen in Portland in the past 12 hours alone. [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2009 at 7:29 pm.
Note: At 7:29pm this evening I published a story based on a Craigslist post (it has since been flagged and is no longer visible) that contained photos and serious allegations about a bike thief working in Southeast Portland. In the past hour I have heard from several personal friends of the alleged thief [...]
Posted on August 27th, 2009 at 10:26 am.
Robert Pickett.(Photo © J. Maus)
So you’ve seen a nervous-looking young guy riding a too-small high-end racing bike down the street with shoes that definitely don’t match the clips. Or maybe you found a bike stashed behind your garage. Or your friend saw your long-lost steed locked to a pole downtown. What’s the right thing to [...]
Posted on July 24th, 2009 at 9:59 am.
The bike, before a thief took it for a two-week joyride.(Photo: James Selman)
It’s been about a month since the re-launch of our Stolen Bike Listings. And it’s a good thing we did. So far in July, we’ve had 63 stolen bikes listed.
Today, I get to a share a story of how technology and [...]
Posted on June 30th, 2009 at 11:55 am.
The Portland police have already used our new listings to nab bike thieves.(Photo: Jack Newlevant)
I’ve got great news for bike lovers and horrible news for bike thieves… It’s been about four years since we first launched the BikePortland Stolen Bike Listings and now, after a long hiatus, they are back and better than ever.
But before [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2009 at 11:03 am.
Jason Charles Bush(Photo: Portland Police)
We recently reported on a high-end bike theft from a Pearl District condo.
This theft occurred during a period in which there seem to have been an unusual number of break-ins to bike storage areas in the Pearl.
Police now have a suspect in the thefts. According to KGW, 28 year old [...]
Posted on February 18th, 2009 at 12:45 pm.
Have you seen this guy (or this bike?!).
On the evening of Valentines Day, Portland bike racer Patrick Wilder got his heart broken.
Wilder, who races cyclocross and mountain bikes with the Team Cyclepath, awoke on February 15th to realize that his two prized, high-end titanium bikes were stolen from a locked, private storage unit [...]
Posted on December 1st, 2008 at 9:57 am.
Private investigators give chase to bike thief (screen grab from KPTV video report).
KPTV (FOX in Portland) staged a bike theft sting as part of their “Fox 12 Investigators” series.
The video report includes footage of a bike thief in action on SE Powell Blvd and has an interview with a Portlander (Emily O’Connor) who [...]
Posted on November 4th, 2008 at 10:58 am.
Lake Oswego police have made progress in the burglary that hit Lakeside Bicycles last week.
According to the Oregonian, police have recovered two of the six high-end bikes (valued at over $16,000) and they’re questioning two suspects in the case:
