Online sleuthing reunites stolen bike and owner (Comments: 0)
Author: Jason Crane
Date: 29 January, 2010
Category: Albany, Bike Theft, Bike news, Jason Crane
The Albany Times Union newspaper ran this piece today:
Online sleuthing reunites stolen bike and owner
By JORDAN CARLEO-EVANGELIST, Staff writer
Last updated: 1:46 p.m., Friday, January 29, 2010ALBANY — By rights, Wesley Leubner’s mountain bike should have been gone for good.
Stolen when his Hudson Avenue apartment was burglarized 18 months ago, the $1,200 Cannondale F600 could have been anywhere by now.
“For six months he was scouring all the want ads,” said Detective James Miller, a police spokesman. The 24-year-old former college student’s exhaustive search of local bike shops yielded only similar disappointment.
But then — in further testament to the ubiquitousness of Craigslist — there it was this week, in all its mango orange glory, for sale at the deeply discounted price of $250.



