Anonymous
By an edhat reader
On Sunday 7/11, I parked my car on Haley Street (near Hayward Lumber and 3rd Window Brewing) after a great bike ride with my son.
We had his brand new Red Trek Mountain Bike and my Santa Cruz Mountain Bike locked to the bike rack on the back of my car. We came back to the car 1 hour later and found the locks cut and both bikes gone.
Thanks to the team at Patco Jewelry (at the corner of Rose and Haley) we were able to get some awesome video footage of the criminals and the entire process of the bikes being stolen. I have that video footage available to share if interested.
The criminals arrived by bike and left via my bike and my son’s bike and can be seen heading up Laguna street in the video footage. So I believe they are local to downtown.
If you have seen these bikes downtown (or possibly have a lead on the thieves) that information will be super useful…plus I am offering a hefty reward.
Contact the Santa Barbara Police Department at 805-897-2300 and reference Tracking Number T21002726.
Bicycle Details
1. Black Santa Cruz Nomad, serial number 59-15088-19-255-276
2. Red TREK Precal-24, serial number WTU300XC6938R
Most of them are vagrant bums.
LCP – most bike thieves are bums? Not sure. Lots of housed criminals rip off bikes – gangsters, students, etc. And even if “them” that Jimbo is talking about are the homeless, there are plenty of “good” homeless people out there. Too much instant hate and blame around here every time a crime is reported.
SAC — seems to be a reference to trump’s quote about mexicans, I think he’s just being racist.
This footage has been on Nextdoor for a week. There is higher chance you’ll die of covid than these bikes will be returned. The city will bust up a homeless camp, put them in a hotel in a family neighborhood and your bike parts will be auctioned off for pennies.
right…we hardly need to downsize SB police dept. at all… !
What a brazen theft. I am sort of surprised that the cops dont already know who these guys are… 30-40 yr olds who ride teenager bikes around town are almost always felons or petty criminals with a long rap sheet… I’ll bet these two still live with their mothers. They certainly have that pathetic, gangsta, broke and unemployable, loser look to them.
Find out where they live and deal with them yourself- Cops can’t do anything but give a citation.
How others see us and don’t understand why Calif voters passed Prop 47: ….”A huge reason for the striking rise in homelessness and both petty and violent crime is Prop 47, a bill deceptively titled the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. The actual bill couldn’t be further from the title. It reduces the penalties for felony crimes, allows for early release of violent criminals, changes some violent felonies to misdemeanors, and allows criminals to steal up to $950 dollars per day in property without prosecution. As a result, police officers are less and less likely to respond to calls reporting petty theft, as there isn’t much they can do with a suspect.
The consequence has been an incredible surge in crime across the state. It is hard to fathom the brazenness that is beginning to take over the criminal element in California unless one can witness it personally. We are truly in a state of emergency and it has nothing to do with COVID……”
HZ, no one has ever said to downsize the police in town, defunding vs downsizing are apples and oranges. argue with the mirror, thanks.
I can imagine the effort you went to gathering the data that backs your claim … just by closing my eyes and thinking of nothing at all. What even is a “teenager bike”? Lots of indigent people ride whatever bikes they can manage to afford (and yes, those bikes are often stolen goods and the purchasers often turn a blind eye). As a victim of quite a few bike thefts I despise these thieves, but not being a bigot I don’t make sweeping generalizations about everyone else based on what kind of bike they ride or what they look like. Some bike thieves look like Harvard students.