January 09, 2023 I Retail
Thief Steals $11K Worth of Instruments from The Mandolin Store
The Mandolin Store, which recently relocated from Nashville, Tennessee, to Lebanon, Ohio, was robbed last week before it had the chance to open its doors. The thief, who was caught on camera, got away with four mandolins worth $11,000, Ohio news station Local 12 reported.
“Those are precious minutes when you’re watching it unfold,” owner Zach Vance told Local 12. “It was just brutal to sit there and watch.”
Vance continued to tell the news station that he received a motion notification from the shop’s Ring camera and proceeded to watched on his phone as a man wearing a ski mask pounded through a store window.
Vance also told Local 12 that if the thief decides to sell the mandolins, they won’t be hard to track down.
“They’ll be hard to unload as I called every single pawn shop [and] cash place within like 30 minutes of here, and I called all the other music stores to let them know like, ‘Hey, if somebody walks in with a couple left-handed instruments, that should raise a red flag,’” he said.
The instruments stolen included an Eastman MD915 Blonde Left Handed, a Northfield NF5S Left Handed, a Northfield NF5S Wide Nut and a Kentucky KM500.
The Mandolin Store was founded by Zach Vance’s father, Dennis Vance, in 2005. The business started in Washington Courthouse, Ohio, before moving to Arizona for 10 years followed by Nashville for three years.
