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May 18, 2010
Pain in the butt
The Brooklyn Paper, Police Blotter
by Thomas Tracy
Bruce Ratner's malls maintain their lock on being ground zero for local criminal activity.
No rest
A thief who swiped a bike outside the Atlantic Center Mall was arrested on May 10 after the owner of the two wheeler told police about a distinctive feature — it had no seat.
The victim told police that he locked his $1,100 Schwinn Voyager to a bike rack on Atlantic Avenue near Fort Greene Place at 10:35 am. He then removed the bicycle seat, locking it on the same rack next to his bike before running a few errands.
When he returned over a half hour later, the seat was still attached to the rack, but the bike wasn’t.
It didn’t take long for cops to track down the 45-year-old thief, who was spotted riding high on the uncushioned two wheeler past the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Rockwell Place.
Posted by eric at May 18, 2010 12:14 PM