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 USD 200 for the guitar, which is valued at USD 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."
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