CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) -- A suspect in a bike theft at the University of Illinois campus is believed to be the same person police say stole a campus restaurant's tip jar earlier this year.

Champaign County Crime Stoppers released its Crime of the Week on Monday. For the week of Nov. 3, officials detailed two separate crimes that happened months apart but appear to have been committed by the same person.

On June 29, police say a suspect stole a tip jar from a restaurant in the area of Sixth and Green Streets and on Oct. 22, a suspect cut a lock off of a bike and rode away on it. The description of the suspect in the bike theft matched the description of the tip jar thief, officials said.

In both cases, the suspect got away, but he was recorded on security cameras. He appears to be approx

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