(KAIR)--The man accused of stealing a bicycle belonging to a Williamsburg, Virginia resident who stopped in Atchison in early August on a cross-country journey, is located and arrested.

According to Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, Atchison officers had been on the look out for 50-year-old Jody Ericson since the time his name was connected to the August 8 theft of the Surly Disc Trucker bicycle, valued new at around $2,000.

On Tuesday morning around 8:30, an officer on patrol spotted Erickson walking on foot, in the 700 block of M Street, in the area of Atchison's LFM Park. Knowing Erickson was wanted on an Atchison County District Court warrant charging him with felony theft, the officer arrested him, with Erickson transported to the Atchison County Jail Tuesday morning.

Booked into jail custody, Erickson's bond is set at $10,000.

The valuable bicycle was stolen while 76-year-old Ken Gross was doing laundry, around 11:00 on the morning of August 8, at an Atchison laundromat. He had ridden in to Atchison as part of his journey, which began July 16 in Maryland, enroute to Oregon.

The bicycle, after police were called, was located in nearby Missouri, just across the Amelia Earhart Memorial Bridge, allowing Gross to continue his cross-country journey. Erickson had fled on foot, eluding officers until his Tuesday morning arrest.

Gross, following the Missouri recovery of his bike, as well as other missing equipment then located in Atchison, thanked Atchison Police, in written correspondence, saying he'd "be in dire straights on the journey had [Atchison Police] not acted quickly and decisively."