Nonprofit bike shop burglarized, owner seeking help to identify thief

A nonprofit bike shop in downtown Milwaukee was broken into early Thursday morning. The burglar broke in and stole a valuable e-bike worth thousands of dollars.

Security cameras captured the thief inside Vulture Space around 1:15 a.m. Thursday. The owner, Evan Pack, said the suspect threw a rock through the window, entered the shop, and stole an e-bike before returning about 10 minutes later to take a second, more valuable one.

“It’s disheartening, it’s frustrating, I put a lot of energy in here,” Pack said.

He discovered the break-in Thursday morning and was able to recover one of the stolen bikes that had been abandoned a block away.

“Coming here I saw one of our e-bikes a block away. I didn’t realize it was ours until I noticed what happened. So I ran and recovered one bike,” Pack said…

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