Police recover blogger's stolen StreetPlane
GREENSBORO - Two days after being stolen, Billy Jones' StreetPlane has landed back in his driveway.
Police arrested Cortez Jamar Ford, 18, of 2127 Fairbrother St., Greensboro, on charges of possession of stolen goods after an off-duty sheriff's deputy reported seeing the three-wheeled bicycle outfitted with biplane-style wings at the home.
Jones said the Guilford County Deputy N.L. Rider noticed the craft outside 2127 Fairbrother St., when he was serving a warrant near there on Wednesday.
The next morning, Rider read about the streetplane's theft in the News & Record and called the Greensboro Police Department to report its location, Jones said.
Police found the streetplane less than a half-mile from Jones' house.
A blogger and former mayoral candidate, Jones said he returned from work Tuesday afternoon to find the bike missing from the front yard of his home off Textile Drive.
The bike's wheels were chained together to keep it from rolling, but it wasn't secured to anything else.
The StreetPlane appears to be undamaged, Jones said.
"If they added a few tears, it doesn't matter." Jones said. "I was going to refurbish it anyway."
Contact Sonja Elmquist at 373-7090 or sonja.elmquist@news-record.com
Accompanying Photos
Photo Caption: Billy Jones, aka Billy the Blogging Poet, with his StreetPlane in 2007.
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