Police cracking down on bike theft with incredibly effective sting operation

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Charleston's finest have set up a sting operation on East Side streets to nab the ever-elusive bike thief.

Their efforts have yielded some pretty amazing results - in the past two weeks, four perps have been arrested for stealing the bait bike within 5 minutes of the setup.

The Charleston City Paper has the brief on the ongoing sting operation.

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