Bike Stolen in the Hoboken Housing Authority

If you don't want your bike stolen, make sure to lock it. 

That's the lesson learned by a 21-year-old Hobokenite around 7 p.m. on Sunday in the area of Third and Jackson Streets. 

The 21-year-old man went into the Bottle King store at Third and Jackson Streets to buy someting and placed his bike in front of the store before going in. A few minutes later, he walked out, to find his bike missing, police said. 

The man's mother—a 42-year-old Hoboken woman, who had been walking out of the nearby laundromat—told police she saw someone biking right past her, but hadn't realized that she had seen her son's bicycle drive by. 

Much later in the night, during the nightly patrol in the Housing Authority, police came across Jonathan Frazier, a 20-year-old Jersey City resident. 

"The bike was just sitting there, so I took it," Frazier told police. "I know who it belongs to and I am going to return it."

Frazier gave the bike to his friend, 19-year-old Maurice Outlaw.

Both were arrested for theft and theft of conveyence, police said.