by KYW's Brad Segall
Montgomery County authorities have uncovered what they describe as a bicycle “chop shop” inside a house in Norristown, Pa., and now they want to know if it’s connected to some recent assaults on the Schuylkill River bike trail.
Police executed a search warrant at the house late last week and found nearly twenty bicycles and dozens of bicycle parts.
Montgomery County district attorney Risa Ferman says the house belongs to the father of a 17-year-old who was taken into custody after he and another teen were involved in an altercation with a man who fired shots at them on the trail last Wednesday (see related story):
"He was obtaining bicycles -- and we are investigating how he was obtaining them -- and then in the basement of his home he was taking parts, constructing bikes and reconstructing bikes, and then selling them.”
She believes that hundreds of bikes may have gone through that house over the last several months.
Now, police want to hear from area residents who may have had their bicycles stolen, either on or off the Schuylkill River trail.
(Photo by KYW's Brad Segall)
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