{"id":87573254,"date":"2007-10-11T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=87573254"},"modified":"2007-10-11T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T13:54:14","slug":"college-park-serial-bike-thief-caught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=87573254","title":{"rendered":"College Park Serial Bike Thief Caught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undercover University Police officers arrested a serial bike thief Tuesday after they spotted him cut the lock on a student&#8217;s bicycle in front of Martin Hall, a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Six charges were filed against Michael Crum, of Washington, including theft for five bicycles that police said he stole from students on the campus.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;He&#8217;s definitely one of the guys that is a leading stealer of bikes on campus,&quot; said Dillon. &quot;It&#8217;s a relatively low-risk kind of criminal activity unless you start stealing bikes in front of cops.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nPlainclothes officers in were hanging fliers on bikes encouraging owners to register with the university&#8217;s database of bicycle serial numbers and corresponding owners, when they spotted Crum ride up on another stolen bike with flat tires, Dillon said.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;We hope and expect him to see jail time for this,&quot; Dillon said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/media.www.diamondbackonline.com\/media\/storage\/paper873\/news\/2007\/10\/11\/News\/Police.Say.Accused.Bike.Thief.Is.Serial.Offender-3025967.shtml\">https:\/\/media.www.diamondbackonline.com\/media\/storage\/paper873\/news\/2007\/10\/11\/News\/Police.Say.Accused.Bike.Thief.Is.Serial.Offender-3025967.shtml<\/a>oldId.20071011135414680<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undercover University Police officers arrested a serial bike thief Tuesday after they spotted him cut the lock on a student&#8217;s bicycle in front of Martin Hall, a police spokesman said. Six charges were filed against Michael Crum, of Washington, including theft for five bicycles that police said he stole from students on the campus. &#8230; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=87573254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;College Park Serial Bike Thief Caught&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87573254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-the-metro-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87573254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87573254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87573254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87573254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87573254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87573254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}