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REVEALED: HOW GANGS GRAB PEDS

£2,000 stolen mopeds sold to drug dealers for £100
STOLEN mopeds worth more than £2,000 can easily be bought on the borough’s streets for less than £100, a New Journal investigation has revealed.
An organised crime ring using builders’ vans is cruising Camden, stealing up to 40 mopeds a month and selling them on to drug dealers.
As a police clampdown on moped-riding troublemakers in Regent’s Park and Somers Town entered its fourth week without any arrests, stolen bikes were offered to reporters by a gang of older, professional thieves and teenagers working the streets of Kentish Town.
Residents on crime-plagued estates have long complained of youths riding mopeds on pavements late at night. Pounds at Albany Street and Kentish Town police stations are regularly filled with stolen and recovered mopeds.
The New Journal investigation revealed bikes are traded outside Edith Neville School in Somers Town and in Queen’s Crescent, Kentish Town.
Last Wednesday a group of youths in Queen’s Crescent offered to sell a reporter a £1,500 50cc NRG scooter with keys for just £100. One said: “For £250 tell me what you want and I’ll go and nick it for you now.”
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