Two persons, aged 27 and 19, were arrested last night for the theft of a bicycle, worth €10,000, which was stolen on December 10 from the parking lot of an apartment building in Strovolos.
As a spokesman for the Police Communication Office told CNA, last night at 8.30pm the owner of the bicycle went to the Strovolos police station at 8.30pm and reported that he spotted an advertisement for the sale of a bicycle, which resembled his bicycle, on an online social networking site.
Subsequently an arrangement was made between the owner and the sellers[/B] to meet[/B] to purchase the bicycle and together with a familiar face of the complainant and a member of the police a meeting was arranged at the location.
At the meeting two persons aged 27 and 19 presented themselves to sell the bicycle, who did not give a satisfactory explanation for their possession of the bicycle and were arrested for the offence of unlawful possession of property.
The bicycle was identified as the bicycle that had been stolen on December 10.
Interrogating the two persons admitted to the theft of the bicycle.
According to the complaint made to the police, in the evening between December 9 and 10, unknown persons stole the bicycle from a parking lot where the owner resides.
[/P]The bicycle was locked on a stand on the roof of the bicycle owner's car.[/P]Contents of this article including associated images are belongs Cyprus Times
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