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Shop Owners Keep Stolen $7,000 Bike Off eBay

Northbrook man arrested in theft of expensive cycle during the Glencoe Grand Prix in June.

Glencoe Public Safety recovered a $7,000 bicycle that was in downtown area on Aug. 22.

Deputy Chief Al Kebby said the alleged thief had tried to sell the expensive bike on eBay for $3,000, only to be thwarted by attentive bike shop owners on the Northwest Side of Chicago.

Roger W. Toms, 62, of Northbrook, was arrested Monday and charged with the attempted sale of stolen items online. Kebby said before Toms tried to sell the custom-made bike on eBay, he first took it to Get a Grip Cycles in the 4300 block of West Irving Park Road in Chicago to be packaged. When he came to pick it up, officers from Glencoe Public Safety were waiting for him there.

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Kebby said the bike shop owners noticed the serial code was scratched off. So they called the shop in Evanston where the bicycle had been built and were told by the staff that a customer had reported his bike was stolen at the Grand Prix race.

Kebby said the bike owner noted that the wheels alone cost $3,000.

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Toms was given a court date of Sept. 1 at the Cook County Court House in Skokie.

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