Miami, Hollywood thefts lead police to recover bike at North Miami home

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NORTH MIAMI, Fla. — A South Florida medical student says she had her dream motorcycle for only 12 days before it was stolen.

The crime was caught on camera around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday outside her Hollywood apartment.

Motorcycle thefts in Miami, Hollywood lead police to recover bike at North Miami home

In a matter of minutes, crooks pulled up in a white van with a Comcast sticker on the side and stole Isabella San Juan’s $7,000 motorcycle.

San Juan is a third year medical student.

“Everything I spent on the bike is pretty much everything I’ve saved working before medical school,” she said. “So I don’t have any way of replacing it.”

She posted about what happened on social media in hopes someone might know something.

That is when she connected with Aiden, who had his $15,000 motorcycle swiped from outside his Miami apartment building around 2:45 a.m. Saturday.

Turns out he had a tracker on his bike, which led him to a home in North Miami.

North Miami police found his motorcycle in the back of a van at the home, releasing a statement about the incident that read, in part:

“The motorcycle, which had been reported (stolen) from the city of Miami was recovered at the residence along with a white van. No arrests were made.”

“I was more so just shocked and just so like disappointed that it comes down to that,” Aiden said. “When it’s actually they think it’s their job or something, or it’s their way of making money to just steal other people’s property.”

The license plate on the van matches the one in San Juan’s surveillance video, and she is hopeful her motorcycle will be recovered too.

“I don’t think criminals care much about the feelings of people they steal things from,” she said. “I just want the bike back. They could just leave it somewhere. I’ll pick it up, no worries.”

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Bridgette Matter

Bridgette Matter

Bridgette Matter joined the Local 10 News team as a reporter in July 2021. Before moving to South Florida, she began her career in South Bend, Indiana and spent six years in Jacksonville as a reporter and weekend anchor.