The Eugene Police Department will hold a recovered property showing at 125 N. Garfield St. today from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m.; much of the property is bicycles that police suspect were stolen, EPD Detective Johann Schneider said.
“There’s a high possibility that many are student bikes,” Schneider said.
More than seven truckloads of property, most of which were bikes and power tools, were recovered when police served a search warrant at a home. There are also several snowboards, golf bags, bike tires and other sporting equipment.
Police believe the house was a chop-shop for bikes where bike parts were stripped and traded for other goods like power tools, Schneider said.
Schneider called Cannondale, a bike manufacturer, to try to track one particularly expensive bike recovered from the search and traced it back to Massachusetts, he said. Schneider said a bike bought across the country was most likely a student’s bike, and that many of the recovered bikes could be students’.
To enter the showing, a person needs to have filed a stolen property report or have their case number from their report, Schneider said. The goal of the showing
is to reconnect owners with their property, Schneider said.
Even if people don’t have their case numbers with them, they can still get into the showing but need to have filed a report, Schneider said.