STOLEN GUITARS - Colorado

[zhivago]

Hey guys, I saw that a forumite over at TGP had a couple of his guitars stolen.

Here is a link to his post...keep an eye out for him...I've had my gear stolen before and it is a terrible situation.

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index ... n.2196366/

I put this in the stolen guitars area already but thought more would see it here.
Last Wednesday morning my guitars were taken from my house in aurora co.
they went straight to a pawn shop and were turned away. A guy saw the transaction and bought them from a thief in the parking lot.
my Revelator shell pink turned yellow and my 61 sunburst strat.
already checking all pawn shops, music stores, Craigslist, eBay and reverb.
If you are in Colorado and come across these contact the aurora police department or me here. The two on left.
thanks

[fuzzjunkie]

Ugh. Sounds like he had a chance to recover them when they were still in the original thief’s possession, but now that he sold them on that’s going to make it much, much harder if the buyer keeps them to himself.

Sucks that the pawnshop didn’t do the right thing.

[zhivago]

I had a similar thing happen when my '67 Jazzmaster was stolen...I went to the pawnshop gave the serial numbers, pictures etc.

Then days later they still bought it and sold it to someone else. As a reissue...for £350 or so!

Thankfully I managed to get it back, but I had to give the new owner his £350.

[seenoevil II]

I had a similar thing happen when my '67 Jazzmaster was stolen...I went to the pawnshop gave the serial numbers, pictures etc.

Then days later they still bought it and sold it to someone else. As a reissue...for £350 or so!

Thankfully I managed to get it back, but I had to give the new owner his £350.

Am I wrong to think that it's a crime to possess stolen property? I get why that person might feel put out, but as the saying goes, buyer beware. Unless this is one of those things that's backwards in UK, like guilty until proven innocent.

[andy_tchp]

Sucks that the pawnshop didn’t do the right thing.

The story says that they refused to deal with the thief?

[fuzzjunkie]

Sucks that the pawnshop didn’t do the right thing.

The story says that they refused to deal with the thief?

My implication was that they didn’t deal with the thief because they obviously knew the guitars were stolen, but they didn’t bother to call the cops. Hopefully they have security footage of the parking lot transaction.

[zhivago]

I had a similar thing happen when my '67 Jazzmaster was stolen...I went to the pawnshop gave the serial numbers, pictures etc.

Then days later they still bought it and sold it to someone else. As a reissue...for £350 or so!

Thankfully I managed to get it back, but I had to give the new owner his £350.

Am I wrong to think that it's a crime to possess stolen property? I get why that person might feel put out, but as the saying goes, buyer beware. Unless this is one of those things that's backwards in UK, like guilty until proven innocent.

I'm not entirely sure...all this happened about 15 years ago...I vaguely remember that the new buyer didn't have his receipt anymore...maybe that also had something to do with it...the most surprising thing was that the pawnshop still bought and sold the guitar after all the information I gave them personally...I gave them printouts of photos of the guitar and everything.