Stolen Bikes Handed Out

Some Ontario children will be getting bicycles once allegedly stolen by a Toronto theft ring run by former bike shop owner Igor Kenk.

He was sentenced to 30 months in jail last December after pleading guilty to bicycle theft and to six drug possession charges.

Police are distributing about 70 bikes and more than 1,000 bike parts and locks today to a pair of Toronto centres for at-risk youth.

Experts will help kids assemble and repair the pieces into complete bikes, which will then be donated to the community.

About 300 bicycles and parts are also being sent to a native agency in Thunder Bay and North Spirit Lake, north of Dryden.