UPDATE: Heights bike thief back in custody, sentenced to prison

Six Days to Justice

It took just six days for a man to be charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison; one year for each electric bicycle he snatched from the garage of a townhouse in the Heights.

Given his long criminal history, which included several prior felony convictions going back to a 1988 burglary, Jesse Perez, 56, grabbed a quickly expiring plea offer from prosecutors, thereby avoiding a jury trial…

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