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Vintage Guitar Worth $2K Stolen Off Brooklyn Street: Cops

The owner must have a real axe to grind.

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The vintage Fender is worth about $2,300, police said.
The vintage Fender is worth about $2,300, police said. (NYPD)

BROWNSVILLE, BROOKLYN -- A guy who left his $2,300 vintage guitar unattended on a Brooklyn sidewalk for 15 minutes was shocked to discover someone took it.

The 29-year-old left his Fender electric guitar near the House of Faith Church on near Saratoga Avenue and Prospect Place at about 11:40 a.m. on March 3, said police.

Police released photos of the guitar and a suspected suspected axe-grabber early Tuesday morning, but later announced the suspect had been cleared.

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