CHICAGO — A Rogers Park man is facing new charges for allegedly stealing a bicycle from a CTA train station and then offering it for sale on Facebook Marketplace. It turned out that the person who offered to buy the bike from him was a Chicago police detective.
CTA surveillance video cameras captured footage of Jason Spoor-Harvey, 47, stealing a 19-year-old woman’s bicycle from the Cumberland Blue Line station on Aug. 30, according to a CPD report. According to the report, the bicycle was locked, but he cut it loose.
It didn’t take long for police to discover that the stolen bike was being offered for sale on Facebook. Investigators arranged a meeting to purchase the bicycle and agreed to meet the seller in the 6400 block of North Clark to finalize the deal, the report said.
Officers set up surveillance at the meeting location and arrested Spoor-Harvey when he arrived with the woman’s Nishiki Pueblo Hybrid bicycle, the report said.
He is accused of selling stolen goods online and theft. Spoor-Harvey is not being held in the theft case, but a judge did take him into custody for violating pretrial release in a pending methamphetamine delivery case.
The Sun Times reported On Friday, reports of bicycle thefts increased by 13% this year.
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