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My bike has been recovered!! The person who sold it on Craigslist contacted me with information on the person he sold it to, and she graciously cooperated when I contacted her. Story...

Michelle and Bike

Thank you to everyone for their support: my friends and family who forwareded my story along, their friends and family in Portland, the bike shops in Portland, Officers Sutton and Bledsoe who listened to me when no one else would, the girl who bought my bike for her honesty and cooperation, and above all Detective Andrew whose determination, I think it's fair to say, matched even Summer's and my own. Everyone has been so supportive. I couldn't have pushed through all of this without you.

The 50cm 2007 Redline Conquest Pro was stolen from the UW campus in Seattle on Thursday, March 5th, 2009. It was sold in Portland via Craigslist on Friday, March 27th, 2009. It was located in Portland on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 and returned on Saturday, April 11th.

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Here is her story...

On Thursday, March 5th made a very bad mistake. She locked her up on the campus with a . went to TA a lab for 3 hours, and when she came back, all that was left was a .

fortunately had the serial number and lots of pictures of , which she gave to the . The gave her . told her the chances of recovering her were pretty much nil, but he would do his best, and she could too. So made fliers and gave them to all her friends who rode , all the local , and a bunch of , hoping for a miracle. She also read every ad that was posted on in , , and .

Three weeks later, on Thursday, March 26th, got her miracle. She found her on in !! She called , and told her to send an to and see if she could get more information. Her friend, , sent him an too. On Friday around 5pm, sent an back to and told her that he already had someone coming to see at 8pm. offered him an extra $50 and convinced him to wait until 8:30pm. He agreed and gave her a location: a parking lot.

and jumped in the and started driving to , a 2 1/2 hour trip when there's no . But there was : rush hour in , rush hour in , an accident in , another accident in . They weren't going to make it on time! So called and explained the story. After much begging and pleading, connected them to . took the information about and said he would check out the parking lot if he didn't get called away.

and reached the parking lot at 9:15pm. was nowhere to be seen, and neither was . and never heard back from .

In the morning, and waited to see if they would get an back from or if the ad would be taken down. also hit and found out everything she could about . She found other ads for and one for a pricey associated with the same address used to email them. Two of the hits had phone numbers, and a few of them had the same name he used in his .

After hearing nothing all day, and took what they knew about to . had in their database: he was someone they wanted to catch. They sent out to talk to and and look at what they'd found on . called one of the phone numbers found, to arrange a time to buy . But when answered the phone, he said he sold the previous night.

The story is not over, and YOU can be a part of it by helping find her !! You can print out this flier and post it in . If you know people in , especially people who love , send them this link. If you know who bought , please send them this link and encourage them to do the right thing. If you bought , please send an to at stolen.redline@gmail.com to work out a fair repayment and the safe return of .