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Burglar Flees On Bike, Leads Police Right to Suspected South Park Chop Shop

A burglar who tried to make his getaway on a bicycle in the South Park neighborhood Saturday afternoon led officers right to a half-dozen stripped down stolen cars and a suspected chop shop.

Police received a report around 3:15 PM that two men had smashed their way into a garage in the 1000 block of S. Donovan Street and fled. Officers arrived at the home and learned one suspect had fled on foot, while the other had pedaled away on an orange bike.

Officers caught the first man on foot and followed the bicycling burglar as he ran into the yard of a home in the 1200 block of S. Cloverdale. When police caught up with the second suspect, he no longer had the bike with him.

When police went looking for the bike in the secluded backyard of the home, they came across the disassembled shells of a half-dozen cars, primarily 1990s Hondas. Police discovered discovered the cars were missing their license plates and engines, and found the vehicles had all been stolen from Queen Anne, Ballard, Federal Way and Tacoma.

Major Crimes Task Force detectives joined the investigation at the home, where officers also seized two tow trucks. SPD evidence specialists also recovered a number of fingerprints from the stolen cars, and have identified a possible suspect connected with the chop shop.

Detectives interviewed the two burglary suspects and continue to investigate the suspected chop shop.