I just verified that the recovered bike is indeed mine. And while I was there, I managed to learn the name of the “person of interest” who sold the bike to the shop. A couple of minutes of Googling and I learn that a person with that name lives just up the road in Bothell, where I have ridden that very bike many times (the Burke Gilman trail goes through Bothell).
Since the phone listing makes this “person of interest” look respectable — a real address and a spouse’s name suggests stability to me — makes me wonder if the thief didn’t just use someone else’s name.
Or is this otherwise ordinary person the kind of person who frequents bike racks with bolt cutters?
More details as they become available.