$8,000 in bikes stolen from locked Denver garage

DENVER (KDVR) — A pair within the Baker neighborhood of Denver awakened final Sunday morning to search out 5 of the seven bikes of their storage lacking, together with numerous tenting gear.

“They’re skilled bike thieves. They ended up leaving two of the not-so-nice bikes, in order that they knew what they have been doing,” Dominique Vanden Dries, who owned three of the stolen bikes, stated.

Vanden Dries stated one of many different stolen bikes belonged to her boyfriend, and the fifth belonged to a pal.

“They obtained away with in all probability round $8,000. It’s round $8,000. That Juliana Bike alone was round $4,000,” Vanden Dries stated.  

She stated the thieves broke their alleyway gate fence. The couple believes the thieves then picked the lock on their indifferent storage door.

“It looks as if they simply took something they’d entry too then threw it in a truck and bailed,” Vanden Dries stated.

Vanden Dries stated they did file a police report and reported the theft to their home-owner’s insurance coverage. However she stated the deductible for the declare was $5,000, so she stated there was no level in submitting with them.

The couple went out to a number of homeless encampments on the lookout for the bikes and stated they even supplied cash to anybody who discovered them.

“I gave my quantity to in all probability 30 completely different folks asking in the event that they noticed something, to let me know,” Vanden Dries stated.

The Denver Police Division shared these statistics with us about bike thefts within the Denver space.

DPD urged that for those who personal a motorcycle, have that serial quantity written down and register your bike on Bike Index so it’s simpler to trace right down to the proprietor.

Vanden Dries has posted a number of indicators on her storage asking the thieves to deliver the bikes again, and they’ll even pay them.

“If it’s cash you’re after, I’ll purchase them again,” Vanden Dries stated.  

Anybody with data on the whereabouts of those stolen bikes is requested to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP.