CORRECTION: This story originally had an incorrect headline which read: “Three males taken in by DPS after Shaw Hall robbery.” Robbery involves seizing property through violence or intimidation, which did not occur.

Three males riding stolen bicycles were taken in by the Syracuse University Department of Public Safety early Thursday morning.

The bikes were stolen from the front of Shaw Hall, said Lt. Edward Weber of DPS, where remnants of a broken lock, along with a fourth bike left on the sidewalk, were collected by DPS officers.

Around 2 a.m., two freshmen heard clanking coming from outside the window of their second floor Shaw Hall dorm room. When they looked out, they saw two people near the bike rack a few feet below the window. One of the freshman witnesses said that they heard a male voice saying, “That’s how you do it.”

The same witness said the two people started to ride south on Comstock Avenue away from Shaw, joining a third person already on bike in the middle of Comstock. Before getting to the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Comstock, two of the three bike riders swerved and fell, said the freshman witness.

The freshman added that he saw a laptop on the ground near one of the riders after he fell off his bike. It was picked up by a third witness and handed over to DPS. It has yet to be determined if the laptop was stolen.

After getting back on the stolen bikes, the three men continued south on Comstock where DPS officers soon picked them up between the 800 and 900 blocks of Comstock Avenue and East Colvin Street, said Weber.

As of 3 a.m. Thursday, the three men were at DPS for processing. Weber stated that they will be issued tickets for criminal possession of stolen property.

 

Published on August 29, 2008 at 12:00 pm