St. Croix Mechanic Charged After Allegedly Giving Away Customer’s Motorcycle
ST. CROIX — A mechanic is now facing felony charges after he allegedly gave away a customer’s motorcycle to somebody else.
2024-06-20 16:11:27 - VI News Staff
In the afternoon of Monday June 10, a man came to the Wilbur Francis Command police station to report that Bryan Christiansen, the owner of the Broken Toyz Body Shop, had reportedly given away his motorcycle to someone else.
According to court documents, the man said that in the summer of 2023, he took his black 1997 Honda MC motorcycle to Christiansen’s shop in Estate Princess. After some time of failing to receive any updates, he began trying to contact the mechanic by phone, with no success. A frequent traveler, the man told police that he also tried to visit Christiansen at his place of business whenever he was on island, but had not been successful in that endeavor either.
He finally made contact with the mechanic this January, the man told police. When he spoke to Christiansen, he was reportedly informed that some motorcycles had gotten damaged in a fire at his body shop. However, the mechanic admitted that the man’s black Honda MC was not one of those damaged. When the man asked about collecting his bike, however, Christiansen reportedly told him that he had given it to another customer whose motorcycle had been damaged in the fire. That customer was a member of a “biker crew” according to the mechanic, and he was given the bike to avoid encountering any problems with the man or his “crew”. Several people have reportedly seen the bike near the John F. Kennedy housing community.