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Rock & Roll signed guitars stolen from Florida Storage Unit -- Wanna wager that they are all fake?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/guitars-signed-rock-stars-taken-13335292...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been arrested after he tried to pawn a red California SG electric guitar signed by the members of rock band Van Halen that he stole from a storage unit, police investigators said.

The owner of OK Pawn alerted police last week when Jeremy James Andrewlavage, 43, came into his store and wanted $200 for the guitar, which is valued at $2,052. Wes Wade called Daytona Beach police detectives, who had visited his pawn shop a week earlier inquiring about guitars.

The guitar — and several others signed by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, U2 and Paul McCartney — was stolen from a storage unit owned by Jack Baker.

Baker told police he'd had the guitars in his condo but decided to move them to a storage unit because he thought they'd be safer there, The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported. He told the newspaper he learned recently that they'd been stolen.

“It was just like a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach,” Baker said. “I had them for a number of years and they were all beautiful, like-new condition guitars.”

Baker said he wasn't surprised the man tried to sell the guitar for just $200, adding that most people don't know their value.

On Dec 2, police recovered a black and white guitar signed by Bob Dylan, but they didn't know who owned it until Baker reported the guitars missing.

A police report said that while Baker was out of town, his storage unit was being looked after by Victoria Lynn Longo. She discovered them missing on Dec. 17 when she realized the door to the unit was unlocked, the report said.

She reported the guitars missing Dec. 20, telling police she waited to get the paperwork for the guitars before reporting the theft. She told investigators all the guitars were there in October.

Baker told police he now believes he left the door unlocked.

The missing guitars include a Blue Fender electric guitar signed by the Rolling Stone and valued at $4,670; a dark “greenburst” guitar signed by Bob Dylan worth about $1,620; an American Flag electric guitar signed by Bruce Springsteen worth about $3,250; a Black Fender electric guitar signed by Eric Clapton worth $3,024; a Fender electric guitar signed by U2 worth $2,916 and an electric sunburst guitar signed by Paul McCartney worth about $2,100.

Baker said his favorite is the one signed by Springsteen.

He's offering a $1,000 reward for the return of the guitars.

Andrewlavage is in the Volusia County Jail, charged with burglary and dealing in stolen property. A lawyer isn't listed on court records, which detail a lengthy criminal history.

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Found some pictures of the guitars -- 100% FAKE! Amazing how the Police never checked and national media picked up this story and never once checked if these were authentic.  Van Halen, Dylan, McCartney, Springsteen.   Here's video from a local news station: https://www.wesh.com/article/guitars-signed-by-rock-legends-stolen-...

What a shock.  Once it was a Florida story, the end result was pretty much predictable.  Signed: a Florida resident.

Hoard of signed guitars + storage unit + Florida = fakes

The real story here is how the police and the all the media outlets never once thought to question the authenticity of the guitars. How many other fakes are out there yet to be discovered?  1000's. 

 there prices are way off

I found one of my stolen guitars being sold for 25K and I listed it at only 20k for the police inventory sheet. now it has a nice jsa shinny sticker and coa that the theif got for it

Did you get it back?

Notsure . We were able to stop the sale. I'm just notsure if the detectives retrieved it or I have to go to court over ownership. But we able to satisfy the auction house that it was stolen but notsure if they gave it. In trying to get details on it. Also the guy behind the robbery jumped bail the day of his sentencing.  If it was at a pawn shop I could have just claimed it the detectives would take possession but this was a public auction so its tricky. 

Very sorry to hear you're dealing with that. 

Its bureaucratic nitemare.  And I don't emails returned. I'm basically do all the searching for everything. But the crack head is out there trying to sell my stuff 

"Florida man" is right.

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