Two Charged with Receiving Stolen Property after Maple Grove Burglary

Two men have been charged with receiving stolen property after police say they were caught with two bicycles stolen from a Maple Grove store Monday, Jan. 16.

Raymon Deszal Little, 18, of Maple Grove and Jeremy Howard Little, 18, of Minneapolis are charged with receiving stolen property, a felony with a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.

The two men, who are cousins, were released from Hennepin County Jail Thursday on separate $10,000 bonds. Ominbus hearings in both cases are scheduled March 1 in Hennepin County District Court.

According to the criminal complaint, compiled by Maple Grove Police Detective Robert Seidenkranz, police were called to just before 9 a.m. Jan. 16 to investigate a report of a burglary. Someone broke the window of the store with bricks and stole four 2011 Tarmac bicycles, valued at about $9,800, and damaged a counter inside the store, according to the complaint.

Four hours later, police were called to  at a church across the street from the bike shop, after someone reported two men removing two bicycles from the church’s Dumpster area, leaving the scene and then returning and taking away two more bicycles.

Witnesses gave police price tags that were found behind the church Dumpster, along with a reflector that had been broken off a bicycle.

Police found two of the bicycles reported stolen in a bike rack at . They followed a trail from the bikes down a bike path and found Raymon and Jeremy Little, who fit the descriptions provided by witnesses, the complaint says. Police found the other two stolen bicycles in a wooded area behind the junior high school’s ball fields.

Both men were arrested. Raymon Little denied involvement in the incident, Jeremy Little told police that they spotted the bicycles between the shed and the Dumpster at the church and decided to take them and ditched two of the bikes in the woods when they heard police sirens, according to Seidenkranz’s account.