Well, we did just have a serial rapist arrested and that dude approached his victims on a bicycle.
West Side 'Bicycle Rapist' indicted for serial attacks
WKYC Staff 12:49 p.m. EDT March 12, 2015
Brown had been due to be released May 19, but instead he will be returning to Cuyahoga County to stand trial on these new charges.
http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/cuyahoga-county/2015/03/12/west-side-bicycle-rapist-indicted-for-serial-attacks/70210062/
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A convicted violent criminal who preyed on women between 2003 and 2008 on Cleveland's West Side -- often approaching his victims while riding a bicycle -- has been indicted for the rapes of three women, according to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty.
The Grand Jury charged Joe Brown, 38, of Cleveland, with four counts of rape, three counts of kidnapping, one count of aggravated robbery and one count of gross sexual imposition.
Right now Brown is in prison in the Richland Correctional Institution where he is serving a four-year sentence for felonious assault. In that case, he attacked a 15-year-old girl in the area of West 76th Street and Detroit Avenue in 2003.
He was indicted and convicted in 2011 after investigation by the Cold Case Unit of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office.
Brown had been due to be released May 19, but instead he will be returning to Cuyahoga County to stand trial on these new charges.
The indictment charges Brown with the Nov. 11, 2003, rape of a 17-year-old victim near West 73rd Street and Lorain Avenue; with the June 18, 2008, rape of a 23-year-old near West 92nd Street and Detroit Avenue; and with the Oct. 6, 2008, rape of a 20-year-old near West 46th Street and Detroit Avenue.
Rape kits were taken following each attack and were tested by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation as part of Attorney General Mike DeWine's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative. DNA profiles obtained from those kits matched Brown's profile in the Combined DNA Index System.
These matches were reported to the Cuyahoga County Sexual Assault Kit Task Force, a collaborative effort of the Cleveland Division of Police, the Cuyahoga County Sheriffs Department, BCI and the County Prosecutor's Office. After additional investigation by the task force, the cases were presented to the Grand Jury.
The task force's work has now led to indictments against 264 defendants, according to McGinty.
We have had several recent cases of robbers, muggers and burglars that used bicycles as their mode of transportation. Every local police recovered property auction has from dozens to hundreds of stolen bikes listed.