BOSTON (WHDH) - A man is facing several charges for allegedly breaking a window and attempting to steal a bicycle from a store in Boston, officials said.
Video shows the attempted thief breaking a window at Urban Cycles: Boston Downtown Bike Shop in the North End with a brick.
Officers responding to the incident around 10:30 a.m. were told that the man, Jared Collette, 25, had walked into the shop and asked to test drive a bike, according to the store’s manager and Boston police.
When asked to show ID and a credit card for the test run, Collette allegedly walked out of the store with a bike.
“I just chased him down, grabbed his backpack and pulled him down and grabbed the bike and said, ‘You’re not taking this bike,'” Jon Malone, a bike mechanic at Urban Cycles, told 7News. “He just threw a trash can into the street and I was like, this is not good.”
Collette than vandalized the window before storming off, Malone said.
“And the next thing I heard was an explosion of glass around me.”
Collette was later arrested on the steps of city hall after kicking and spitting on officers during the arrest, police said. He is being charged with unarmed robbery, assault by means of a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a police officer, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and malicious destruction of property, according to police.
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