Stolen Guitar Finds Its Way Back to Fairfax Shop: Police

FAIRFAX, VA — So a guy from Stafford buys a new guitar from a Craigslist poster on Dec. 25 at an area Wawa and later goes to Fairfax for dinner with his mother and brings along the guitar. He then stops by Guitar Center at 11051 Lee Highway to show a buddy who works there his new instrument, according to Fairfax Police spokesman Shawn Sutherland.

His buddy says something along the lines of "Oh, we have one just like that here."

When he goes to find it, though, it's missing. Well, turns out there's a reason it was missing.

It had been stolen from the store sometime between Dec. 22-25. The most recent inventory had been done Dec. 21.

Records showed his buddy's guitar was the same one that had been stolen.

Sutherland said Wednesday police are running down various productive leads.

Also in Wednesday's Fairfax crime report:

Incident / Case #…

Trespassing Arrest
16-22232
10670 Fairfax Boulevard / Capital One Bank – On December 21 at 1:48 PM employees reported that a female subject was acting disorderly and refusing to leave the premises. After she also refused police officers’ demands to leave she was placed under arrest. Joan Bernadette Naurot-Ton, 28, of 10931 Park Road, Fairfax, was transported to the Adult Detention Center where she was charged with trespassing and her bond set at $500.

Larceny
16-22233
10306 Eaton Place – On December 21 at 1:57 PM the victim, an employee of the office, reported that between 11:20 AM and 11:30 AM unknown person(s) had stolen her wallet from her purse. The wallet contained identification and credit cards, several of which subsequently had been used to make unauthorized charges.

Vandalism

16-22543
3500 Block of Early Woodland Place – On December 27 at 9:08 PM the resident reported that sometime between 6:30 PM and 8:30 PM unknown person(s) had shattered the window of a glass door.

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