The problem with Igor is that the city allowed it to happen. Yes, he is the most well-known guy to be doing this but walk into any pawn shop in the city and you will see much much worse. Bikes are small-fry items; power-tools are huge business as there are construction sites where a thief can walk off with $500 worth of equipment in a gym bag. DVDs are the same thing; anyone who has had an apartment broken into knows that the easiest thing for a crackhead to get rid of are DVDs as they never have any identifying marks on them. GPS trackers are stolen from dashboards. Ipods are snatch'n-grabs from kids on the subway. The list goes on.

There used to be a pawn-shop task force in the city where a group of cops would routinely go into the pawn shops and match numbers of stolen items with inventory of the pawn shops. Anything stolen was given to the victim and the shop would often be fined; it was much cleaner back then. In the '90s, this pawn-shop task force was dissolved due to budget cuts and voila, you have the situation we have now----zero accountability. Right now there is some scumbag happy as hell to hear that Igor has been busted because there will be a vacuum of crackheads itching to get rid of stolen bikes and/or parts.