LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- Four men and five teenage boys have been charged following a spate of bicycle thefts in Lakewood.

Christopher Kearns, Joshua Jones, Marquis Clemens and Nicholas Hager, all 18-year-old Lakewood residents, are charged with receiving stolen property.

Bicycles were reported stolen in Lakewood at a rate of nearly one per day last week, and the four adults and five boys were arrested after stolen bikes were found in their possession, police said.

Hager and Clemens were first arrested May 29 after a witness told officers he saw them leaving a Fry Avenue house carrying electronics, police said.

Officers eventually found four bicycles in their homes that were reported stolen in the recent rash of bike thefts, police said. An investigation led to the charges against Kearns, Jones and a 17-year-old Lakewood boy.

Charges against two 15-year-old boys and a 14-year-old boy were related to a bicycle stolen May 31 from a Ridgewood Avenue home. Another 17-year-old boy was arrested in connection to a May 30 bicycle theft at a Clarence Avenue home, police said.

The four men charged in the bike thefts have pleaded guilty and are scheduled for sentencing in Lakewood Municipal Court.