lesh immediately recognized it. ad asked for $100 for the $600 bicycle, but lesh wasn't about to let someone else have his bike. >> i'm glad that hopefully his business is interrupted a little bit. >> reporter: lesh lent his bike to a friend last weekend. the bike was secured with a cable lock like this one. but the wire was cut and the bicycle was gone. >> easy target. >> reporter: lesh says he called police when he saw the bike online, but he says he was told an officer could not respond right away. >> i knew i had to do it that day or else i'd never see the bike again. >> reporter: lesh then arranged to buy his bike back. lesh says a man came out of an alley and met him with the bike. but instead of paying the listed price, lesh took the bike for a test ride and never came back. >> this guy finally started calling me and left a message saying he was about to call the police. >> reporter: but when lesh got his bike back, that was not the end of it. then he went on craigslist and he put up his own post. the posting

he was waiting for lesh just down the street. >> i got 4 blocks away. had the taxi pull up behind me. i got the bike into the trunk of the taxi and we were on the other side of town when the thief call mid cell phone asking me where it was. didn't answer. so he left a message threatening to call the police on me. >> reporter: after filing a police report lesh did call d.c. metro police asking for a plainclothes officer to aorist and possibly make an arrest, but after -- to assist and possibly make an arrest but after several phone calls was told an officer wasn't available. >> i had served them up a criminal on a platter and for whatever reason they weren't able to do it. >> two days after he got his bicycle back he found even more bike ads listed from that same guy who was selling his stolen bike. police have not commented on the case except to say it is under investigation. >> i'm 8 years old, somebody went on my porch and stole my bike in that very same neighborhood. >> really? >> it might have been that guy. >> could have been, maybe his grandfather

lesh says a man came out of an alley and met him, but instead of paying the listed price, lesh took the ride and never came back. >> this guy finally started calling me and left a message saying he was about to call the police. >> but when lesh got his bike back, that was not the end of it. then he went on craigslist and he put up his own post. >> reporter: the posting is a warning about stolen bikes for sale. the high-end bicycles selling for $150 or best offer. >> i was disgusted, honestly, and i couldn't help, you know, feeling bad for all of the other people who he had stolen bikes from. >> reporter: d.c. police advise against trying to recover stolen property on your own, but lesh is glad to rip off the crook he says got him first. >> real poetic justice. >> reporter: in northwest justice, richard jordan, news 4. >>> thomas jefferson high school in alexandria has been named the second best in the country. "u.s. news & world report" put together the list of the top 100 schools nationwide. the northern virginia school was picked based on a number of factors, including academic perfor

danny lesh found his stolen bike on craigslist, met the alleged thief and stole his bike back during test ride this, after failed attempts to get d.c. metro police involved. >> i had served them up a criminal on a platter and for whatever reason she weren't able to do it. >> reporter: jones -- they weren't able too do it. >> reporter: jones posted her craigslist ad just like lesh did to warn other bike owners and victims, but she hit a roadblock with the d.c. metro police. >> they told me nothing they can do first because i'm an arlington resident and second, the woman said we can't just go to this guy's house. >> reporter: to worsen her day, jones tells us the night her bike got snatched her bad luck continued during her walk home. >> i got mugged at knifepoint on the way home. >> chef has had a tough road. -- she has had a tough road. after she filed a report with arlington police, a detective followed up with her today. meanwhile d.c. metro police said jones should not have been told they can't help her because she's from arlington but that she should contact metro transit police.

police haven't found the crook and although it worked out for dan lesh, police want to make sure people understand how dangerous it can be to go after your own stolen goods. >>> it is 4:35. here's a look at some of the other stories making news. john edwards' daughter cate edwards is expected to testify in her father's defense. he's charged with violating campaign finance laws all to cover up an affair with a woman named rielle hunter. the defense did its best to try to discredit the prosecution's star witness andrew young, edwards' former assistant. elizabeth nick coms says young was considered dishonest. there's also reports that the defense is expected to call rielle hunter as well. >>> a second juror was dismissed tuesday for sleeping through part of roger clemens' pretrial. brian mcnamee said his wife told him to protect himself after she told him details about injecting the star with steroids and human growth hormone. mcnamee said that's why he saved medical waste after injecting clemens. the waste is the physical evidence prosecutors are using against the former all-star pitcher.

. >> reporter: danny lesh knows something about street justice. >> i got on the bike. i said i'm going to take it for a test drive and i took off. >> reporter: the cyclist stole his own bike back from a man who had taken it and selling it. he said he found a listing on craig's list for his bicycle. he contacted the seller and arranged a meeting. that's when he alerted police. he claims the call to the cops fell on deaf ears. >> i served them a criminal on a platter and for whatever reason they weren't able to do it. >> reporter: now dc police chief is answering the question he is answering. why didn't authorities help him get his bike back? >> there was background work we wanted to do so we didn't lose the person who ultimately took the bike to begin with. >> reporter: chief said instead of waiting, he decided to act. >> we asked him to be patient and let us get our plan together and i think he decided he was going to get his bike. >> reporter: that's exactly what he wanted. he's smiling now and happy to have his bike back. the chief says it isn't the wisest idea to co

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playing with us today, maria cardona, she plays on the left side of the political field and dana lesh she plays on the right side. welcome to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. first question. democratic congressman keith elson of minnesota is urging the united states to do more in syria. he is also a muslim. here's what he told john king. >> they were assassinated. this is the kind of government we're talking about right here. i think the president is moving in a deliberate way, but i think he's got a weigh various things. i'm saying that the people of syria need more focused attention and they need it now. not only from president obama, but from the whole world. >> so, the question this morning, should the united states militarily intervene in some way? maria? >> well, we certainly shouldn't take that off the table and we haven't, but it's very complicated situation and there's no question that the massacre was unconscionable and anybody with a decent bone in their body thinks the assad regime should be taken out immediately. the problem is, we don't know who the regime

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