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World's most prolific bike thief

Canadian police say they have caught the world’s most prolific bike thief. Officers recovered 2,865 stolen bicycles from the owner of a Toronto bike shop, reports The Guardian.

Igor Kenk was arrested after Toronto police, noticing that bike theft had spiked sharply in June, planted bicycles on the streets and watched to see who stole them.

After catching Kenk in the act, police raided his business, the Bicycle Clinic. The shop was so jam-packed that the fire service had to remove the upper-floor windows and lower the bikes out by rope.

Later, 200 more bikes were seized in Kenk’s home, along with large quantities of drugs, in a smart neighbourhood in Toronto. Ten landlords around the city also reported that they had rented garages to Kenk, which were chock-full of bikes.

Toronto police officers said about 500 people had so far been reunited with their bicycles.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .