MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) – It was a year ago Tuesday night when Milwaukee Symphony concert-master Frank Almond was robbed of a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin with which he had just performed.
Recently, Almond joined Milwaukee Police and FBI agents in a presentation about the case to the FBI Citizens’ Academy. He treated the cadets and investigators to a short performance with the $5 million violin.
Almond was shot with a Taser stun gun in the parking lot at Wisconsin Lutheran College, right after he performed with the rare Stradivarius the night of last January 27th. Investigators traced confetti left by the Taser to a barber who bought the weapon a few months earlier.
Universal Allah then led police and FBI agents to Salah Salahaydn. He reportedly told people it was his “dream crime” to steal the violin because of its value, and the ease of grabbing it from a musician.
It was missing for 9 days before Salahaydn led police to the violin, hidden at the home of one of its former owners.
Both Allah and Salahaydn were sentenced to prison for their roles in the robbery.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
