Stolen bikes recovered in Venice house raid
June 3rd, 2009 
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Fellow westside riders, we have exciting news. This email was passed around this morning, LAPD Pacific Division scooped up a bike thief in the Venice area, there’s a good chance that many bikes stolen from Santa Monica ended up in this guy’s garage.
If you think yours may be one of them, use the contact info below and try and recover your bike. If you don’t have your serial, at least start writing down specifics of your bike (brand and model of each bike part) so you have something written you can present to them in person to try and prove that the bike is yours.
Please feel free to pass this on to anyone else you know that has lost a bike, especially if it was stolen in West LA or Westwood area.
“Message from LAPD Senior Lead Officer Juan Ceja below. He can be reached through the LAPD Pacific Division Community relations office – Cell Phone # 310-622-3975 or contact the Senior Lead
Basic Car Coordinator Sergeant Pompano – 310-482-6334
___________________Re: Recovered Bicycles
On May 14, 2009 an outside agency conducted a search warrant of a house and they located several stolen bicycles. The brands vary from Giant, Trek, Town & Country and Specialized to Connondale and Denali.
If anyone had their bicycle stolen and have the serial number of their bike or can identify the bicycle by markings on it then please call me. Thank you.
**** This is why I continue to remind everyone to engrave their names, made-up code or just write the serial number of your bicycle somewhere in your wallet so in the event that your bicycle gets stolen, we have a better chance in recovering it.****
Senior Lead Officer Juan Ceja“
So there you have it folks, finally a break in a case that will hopefully reunite some West LA riders with their trusty velocipedes. In other news, it seems like vigilance paid off in the case of a stolen bike in the USC area:
How to catch a Bike Thief (Part 1)
How to catch a Bike Thief (Part 2)
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yeah, good luck with that. LAPD does not seem to give a shit about stolen bikes. i’ve been leaving messages & trying to get in touch about recovering my stolen bike and no one’s calling me back.