Over 130 recovered bicycles in Marin County, California

On June 24, 2014, at about 5:00PM, Deputies from the Marin County Sheriff’s Office Problem Oriented Policing Unit, along with Detectives from the Marin County Major Crimes Task Force and San Rafael Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit executed several search warrants within Marin County in regards to a major bicycle theft ring. The search warrants were served at a residence in the 1100 block of Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Kentfield, a storage facility on Industrial Way, Greenbrae, and a motorhome in Corte Madera. Rebecca Hammett, a 50 year old woman who resides in Kentfield, had been buying suspected stolen bicycles from various bicycle thieves in Marin. Hammett was arrested and booked into the Marin County Jail.

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By now you all have seen this story of an off-the-rails cyclist in Mill Valley, California who beat an innocent motorist and sent him to the hospital in what the San Francisco Chronicle calls a road rage attack.

This “man bites dog” story of a cyclist who sends a motorist to the hospital is compelling to Chronicle readers, but there is another side of the story.

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