Crystal Andromeda
New Member
- Jurisdiction
- Arizona
Hello. Thank you for reading my post. I bought my bike used from a friend and received paperwork and a owner's manual with the bike. I owned the bike for a month when on Monday a man who was very drunk came running from across the street yelling at me and grabed my bike causing me to fall. he was threatening me and I have never seen this person in my life.. He was claiming that the bike was his. I yelled for people to call 911.when the police arrived we both gave our story. This person had not reported the bike stolen and did not even know where it was stolen from or when. He could not prove it was his and did NOT have a serial number. He alluded to having a picture of the bike on his phone but not a serial number. He had absolutely no other evidence. The police even tried calling a bicycle repair store that he said he had visited months ago and they did not have the serial number either. I was on my bike at the time remember that. I am riding my bike when this person makes this up. The only thing this person could produce was a pic on his phone of a similar bike. This is in an affluent neighborhood BTW. I am a traveler with a backpack and can appear to be homeless by police. I am convinced that this was what they base their judgment on but do not know for sure. They also asked a lot of probing questions that were designed to get me to give information that would implicate myself in just about anything. They were trying to basically get anything on me that they could. They said they were going to put the bike in evidence but then let it go to him. I asked for a police report multiple times and was refused one they would only give me a witness statement. The next day I went to the police station to fill out a police report and was stonewalled by the officer. I already have a written statement that I am ready to email to the police supervisor or internal investigations and City Hall. /Administration. What is my next step? do I need to contact a lawyer or the department of Justice. I know I need to get my side of the story in soon. Since they have denied me a police report I have typed up a statement/report style email with my side of the story with even more details that does not look good for the police. I just don't want to email it to someone in police administration cuz that would be showing my hand. Or is that exactly what I need to do so they give me my bike back?