$1,600 in Stolen Bicycles Reported in Hoboken

At least $1,600 in bicycles were stolen in Hoboken over the last week, according to police reports. 

Most of the bikes stolen were secured and some were taken from private parking garages. Most of the bikes are between $300 and $500. 

A black and white bike was stolen from 406 Washington St. on Tuesday around 10 p.m., according to police reports. The bike was worth $321. 

A day later, on Wednesday around 11:30 p.m., a bike lock was broken and removed from the place it was parked, police said. Police, however, followed the alleged thief and found 52-year-old Shawn Coar from East Orange, according to reports. When police approaches Coar, he told them "alright, alright, I'm not a bad guy," police said. 

Coar also had a pair of bolt cutters with him, police said. While police placed him under arrest, Coar said he had stolen another bike and had parked it at Fifth and Bloomfield Streets, police said. The bike was found in front of 421 Bloomfield St. 

On Sunday, A 32-year-old Hobokenite told police that her son had locked his bike to a fence around 11 a.m., police said. When he came back around 9 p.m. to retrieve his $400 bike, the two wheeler was missing, according to reports. 

That same day, between 11 p.m. and midnight, a $1,000 specialty mountain bike was stolen from a private garage at 74 Monroe St. The bike belonged to a 39-year-old Hoboken woman. 

Another private garage was burglarized, after a 31-year-old Hoboken woman at 415 Newark St. realized that her $600 bike was missing, police said. The bike was parked in a bike rack on the second floor of the building's secured parking garage, police said.