An electric scooter returned. An electric bike reported stolen. 

On Thursday, July 25, Barrington Police seized an electric scooter that was believed to have been stolen from outside the Shaw’s Supermarket a week earlier. 

A person found the scooter parked outside the store — it had a note on it that stated the person who had taken it thought it had been abandoned there, but after reading last week’s police report discovered that it had been reported stolen. Police returned the scooter to its rightful owner. 

Also on Thursday, a Walnut Road resident told police he purchased an e-bike off Facebook marketplace only to discover later that the bike had been reported stolen in Somerville, Mass. in early July. 

The Barrington resident told police he received a notice that there was a tracking device in the bike and that it had been stolen earlier in the month. The resident was only able to provide to police with a vague description of the person who had listed it for sale online.