- Location
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College Park, MD 20740
- Locking description
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Chain with padlock
- Locking circumvented
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Lock was cut, and left at the scene.
- Stolen at
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2016-12-01T00:00:00-0600
- Police report #
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PP16120100001993
- Department & city
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Prince George's County PD
- Description of incident
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At about 6:30pm on 11/30/16, I came back from class the View (my apartment building) and parked my bike at the rear rack towards the north side of the building, in full view of a security camera. I went inside and was later picked up by my mother at 7:30pm to go to Frederick for the night. When I got back around 1:00pm on 12/1/16, I went out to get my bike for class, but it was gone. University View security said that mine was the second bike stolen that night as part of a heist done by a group of about 3 men wearing hoodies. Security said that several other bikes had been stolen from the University View rear bike racks in the past week. Security told me that their camera footage showed the hooded men approach the bike racks from the bridge leading to the Paint Branch Park Trail at the rear of the View. They were wearing dark colored hoodies and dark jeans/pants. The shorter of the group had a camo/ military style backpack on. They cut my chain lock at 2:42am, and then took the bike at around 2:50am.