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Police Recover Nancy Wilson’s Guitar Following Heart Instruments Theft

Nancy Wilson’s custom-made guitar, one of the two "irreplaceable" instruments that were stolen on the eve of Heart’s tour, has been recovered.

A suspect in the theft was arrested last week, at which time authorities said they obtained surveillance footage of 57-year-old Garfield Bennett from Pleasantville, NJ, trying to sell various items he had allegedly stolen from the band on the eve of their Royal Flush summer tour on May 31. According to police, Bennett sold the purple Telecaster guitar made specifically for Wilson to another woman, who purchased it at a meet-up just blocks from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino where the instruments were stolen, the Associated Press reports. Police added that the other stolen instrument, a vintage 1966 Gibson EM-50 mandolin played by band member Paul Moak for the past three decades, remains unaccounted for.

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