130 stolen bikes recovered in Marin

[mvrider]

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2014/06/25/130-stolen-bicycles-recovered-in-marin-county-raid/

A Kentfield woman was arrested Tuesday after investigators discovered more than 130 bicycles and bicycle frames in her possession, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities said they believe Rebecca Hammett, 50, had been part of a major bicycle theft ring, purchasing bikes from thieves who had taken them from all over the county.

Dozens of high-end mountain and road bicycles were among those recovered from a home on the 1100 block of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Kentfield, a storage facility on Industrial Way in Greenbrae and a motor home in Corte Madera, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office said.

One recovered bicycle’s serial number has since been matched to a bicycle stolen from a student at Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo. It was returned to its rightful owner. Investigators are still processing each of the bicycles in hopes of returning them to owners.

The Sheriff’s Office will also be posting photos of the bicycles for review.

http://blogs.bicycling.com/blogs/thehub/raid-recovers-130-stolen-bikes

Her bail was set at $30,000, and on the booking for her arrest, her occupation is somewhat comically listed as "bike builder."

[joosttx]

Wow, thats a few miles from my home. hope they throw the book at her.

[plattyjo]

The photos of the bicycles are now up (http://photos.marinij.com/2014/06/26/photos-is-this-your-missing-bicycle/)!

[fil]

minneapolis too
(http://www.kare11.com/story/news/crime/2014/06/26/bicycle-theft-operation-busted-in-mpls/11410505/)

[kgreene10]

I went to school at the aforementioned Sir Francis Drake HS. I also had an awesome red PK Ripper BMX bike stolen from outside a pet shop at the Red Hill Center down the road when I was a kid. I saved paper route money for a year for that bike. It was 1979. Do you think they found it in the mobile home in Corte Madera??????

[ColnagoFan]

#14 Allez: straight out of American Flyers...

[texbike]

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2014/06/25/130-stolen-bicycles-recovered-in-marin-county-raid/



http://blogs.bicycling.com/blogs/thehub/raid-recovers-130-stolen-bikes

Awesome!!!! Now if they could just nail the thieves that've been working Austin over for the past year!

Texbike

[don compton]

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2014/06/25/130-stolen-bicycles-recovered-in-marin-county-raid/



http://blogs.bicycling.com/blogs/thehub/raid-recovers-130-stolen-bikes
Nothing new. She's just a "fence". Glad they caught her. I'll bet most of the high end bikes' owners have been compensated by their insurance cos.

[pbarry]

Nothing new. She's just a "fence". Glad they caught her. I'll bet most of the high end bikes' owners have been compensated by their insurance cos.

Yes, but.. Not everyone in Marin is well-to-do or bothers to follow up when a $300 bike goes missing. And there are plenty of Marin County residents who don't call the sheriff for any little thing, or file an insurance claim for an item that might equal their deductible.

Good score here for LI and cyclists. Thanks for the heads-up!

[carpediemracing]

Steelman with cantilever brakes in there, in the 80s or 90s I think.

Ibis carbon frame.

A nice Vitus aluminum.

Straight tube Pinarello.

Couple? red carbon Epics, the glued frames by Specialized. Beautiful color, horrible ride (I had one so it popped out at me). Might be one frame, two pictures.

Moser. Basso. Medici? I'm already forgetting. There was one unique looking pale blue bike with gray tires? It was awfully pale looking, really cool.

Some of the last ones were pretty interesting also.

Some bikes look familiar to me from my shop days so they date to the mid 90s. Specialized Stumpjumper with a Judy, was one of my favorite bikes I owned.

Saw an original Cannondale frame with steel fork (white).

A tandem trailabike kind of rig (two kids).

[bingomck]

Very happy to see this… I swear I've seen that black/teal decal RB-T on Craigslist about a year or so ago.

Must have taken them a long time to lay out/photograph/put away all those bikes by the Civic Center entrance!

[velotrack]

Steelman with cantilever brakes in there, in the 80s or 90s I think.

Ibis carbon frame.

A nice Vitus aluminum.

Straight tube Pinarello.

Couple? red carbon Epics, the glued frames by Specialized. Beautiful color, horrible ride (I had one so it popped out at me). Might be one frame, two pictures.

Moser. Basso. Medici? I'm already forgetting. There was one unique looking pale blue bike with gray tires? It was awfully pale looking, really cool.

Some of the last ones were pretty interesting also.

Some bikes look familiar to me from my shop days so they date to the mid 90s. Specialized Stumpjumper with a Judy, was one of my favorite bikes I owned.

Saw an original Cannondale frame with steel fork (white).

A tandem trailabike kind of rig (two kids).

Not to mention two colnagos, one with a weird SRAM mix and black cockpit.

It had some packaging on it, which leads to me to believe maybe not ALL the bikes are stolen? Who knows. Either way, 130 is a find.

[johnny_flapjack]

The pics feel like they're from one of those police auctions.

I wonder when they'll start taking bids for the unclaimed units. Unless I start claiming them....

[zmudshark]

#33 is a chrome Paramount, still mostly intact.

[Saint Vitus]

Wow, thats a few miles from my home. hope they throw the book at her.

Indeed, perhaps one this size...


http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0247/9421/files/everett3.jpg?5369

[Hindmost]

Image in the news article shows the bikes layed out under the Marin Civic Center. Use to be a criterium that ran around the Civic Center and through there.

[bikingshearer]

The photos of the bicycles are now up (http://photos.marinij.com/2014/06/26/photos-is-this-your-missing-bicycle/)!

That is a depressingly amazing haul, including names one doesn't often see in these parts Lygie? Razesa? I'm guessing that most of us have rarely, if ever, seen either on in the flesh.

And even if this is "just the fence," one less go-to fence = harder to sell stolen bikes = (I hope) fewer crooks looking at bikes as easy money. It's all good, especially if the fence they took down starts naming some names to get a better plea deal. One can hope . . . .

[FastforaSlowGuy]

Some great bikes (and probably a lot of stolen dreams) in there. I'm going home to take pictures of my serial numbers tonight.

[malbecman]

I have a Peugot just like #17 (got from my neighbor when they moved)....weird how old some of these are. Why would you sit on them for so long? Or is this just part of some 2ndary stolen bike market where they are bought and sold in lots?

[likebikes]

All the stripped/partially stripped frames makes me think they were selling the parts/wheels off them?

[don compton]

That is a depressingly amazing haul, including names one doesn't often see in these parts Lygie? Razesa? I'm guessing that most of us have rarely, if ever, seen either on in the flesh.

And even if this is "just the fence," one less go-to fence = harder to sell stolen bikes = (I hope) fewer crooks looking at bikes as easy money. It's all good, especially if the fence they took down starts naming some names to get a better plea deal. One can hope . . . .
If you look at the inventory, most bikes are not high value. I ride in the Bay Area and in Sonoma and Marin cos. Many of my friends have had their bikes stolen, and all were high end bikes. I just wonder that this haul is stuff she couldn't easily sell on some "out of state" craiglist.