Police arrest electric bike burglars, warns many others active in Central Coast

The enterprise of stealing larger finish electrical bikes is turning into a prime tier offense in Santa Barbara and lots of different areas of the Central Coast.

Within the final two weeks, one vendor, Electric Bikes of Santa Barbara had two burglaries. Thankfully, for proprietor Scott LaMoine, the bikes have been recovered and one individual has gone to jail.

Santa Barbara Cops had been thanked on social media for his or her efforts to reply, and observe up on the primary name by recognizing a suspect on a $6,000 stolen electrical bike from the show flooring, then taking the rider into custody.

A second break-in, every week later, was stopped by the proprietor. The suspect ran however left the bike.

“I see a man, he is received the bike on his shoulders attempting to climb out the window. I seize the bike, pull it out of his palms, he jumps by means of the damaged window,” stated La Moine.

In between the 2 incidents, a big retailer window, damaged down to realize entry, had to get replaced. With each crimes, that was two home windows.

A highway signal close by for driving instructions across the new State Avenue Promenade, was used to shatter the glass.

The constructing has alarms.

Now the home windows have additional safety, designed and put in by Rex Stephens of Santa Barbara Cruisers. The brand new bars are mounted in two instructions to stop a motorcycle from being pulled out of a show stand if a window is damaged once more.

“(It) nonetheless has an eye fixed attraction to it with out being intrusive to the enterprise but it’s secure for the bike store,” stated Stephens.

He’s listening to of many bike thefts across the space.

“I’ve been watching this pattern of the bicyclists being extra in style than I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t shock me in any respect that the thieves are proper behind the bike shops.”

LaMoine says he even had an incident with somebody attempting to chop the lock on a locked bike outdoors of his retailer. That suspect was chased down the road, carrying the bolt cutters till police got here racing as much as make the arrest.

“After I hear of thefts it’s often off the again of your automotive so when you have got it on the racks that carried the bikes, or out of your storage,” stated LaMoine.

He has a particular German made lock ABUS, that’s among the many hardest to chop.

“So it’s compact,  it is safe, it unfolds and now we have by no means have misplaced but  a motorcycle but with this type lock,” stated LaMoine.