Guitarist Ronnie Montrose actually stopped a show in mid-song, had the house lights turned on, and scoured the theater when his 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard was stolen right off the stage. Montrose, a San Franciscan, hasn’t seen his guitar (which he bought from J. Geils) since that night on Oct. 10, 1972 when he played Dudley, Mass. with the Edgar Winter Band … until now. The San Francisco musician — who has played with Herbie Hancock, Van Morrison and…

A 57-year-old man was arrested after authorities say he punched his cousin in the face, then struck him in the head with a guitar in Naples Monday. Russell Craig Slusser, of Turlock, Ca., was taken to the Naples Jail Center on a charge of Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon. According to reports, shortly before 1 a.m. Monday, Slusser told his cousin, Terry Slocum, that he could “take him” because Slusser lifted weights in prison. Terry reportedly tried to avoid…

A 21-year-old Oswego man has been indicted for allegedly supplying the heroin that led to a Crystal Lake man’s death. Mark Seranella, of the 200 block of Fox Chase Drive, was indicted by a McHenry County grand jury Thursday on drug-induced homicide charges in the 2007 death of Ryan Maxwell. On Jan. 26, 2007, Crystal Lake police found Maxwell, 18, dead of an apparent heroin overdose in a friend’s apartment. According to his obituary, Maxwell worked as a machine operator…

Police have arrested a man suspected of stealing nine guitars from a Desert Hot Springs home, but two of the guitars are still missing, police said Thursday. According to Desert Hot Springs police, Michael Rutledge, 19, pried open a metal security door on a home in Desert View Avenue while the resident was at work on May 17 and took the guitars, worth thousands of dollars. Someone saw Rutledge’s truck parked near the home and later called police. A patrol…

Two persons were bound over to the grand jury on charges of breaking into a church and stealing musical equipment. Ashley Nelson, 20, and Daniel Vance, 20, both of Dingess, are charged by the Mingo County Sheriff’s Department with breaking into the Calvary Freewill Baptist Church at Dingess. According to the criminal complaint, the pair allegedly broke into the front door of the church and stole a Fender guitar and Peavy amplifier valued at roughly $1,700. Vance waived his right…

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla.–A woman accused of using a guitar to bash her aunt in the aunt’s ‘brain stint’ faces a battery charge after an apparent dispute over a prolonged bathroom stay, according to recently released records. The aunt, Brenda Tucker Curry, 53, also went to jail on a battery charge following allegations by her niece, 29-year-old Stacy Spells, that Curry scratched and hit her. When St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputies Tuesday morning arrived at the scene in the 2500…

A BROKEN guitar was a key piece of evidence in an assault case heard in the Coffs Harbour Local Court heard this week. The guitar was found discarded in an Arrawarra caravan park by police investigating an alleged assault. The officers were called to the park on the morning of October 5 last year by a man who claimed he had been assaulted by a fellow camper. The victim told police he and his elderly father had got into an…

Two men have been convicted in a Russian court over the killing of a 16 year old schoolgirl, who was eaten after her death. The murder, in January, was followed by the act of cannibalism, which took place in a St. Petersburg apartment. The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced a 21-year-old Goth-rock musician and his accomplice to 18 years jail after hearing that the musician lured his victim to his apartment, where he and a friend drowned her in a…

A three-year investigation into the fatal overdose of a 19-year-old Crystal Lake man culminated Friday with the arrest of an accused drug dealer who police say traded the dead man heroin for a guitar. Crystal Lake police arrested Mark S. Seranella, 21, at his Oswego home on a charge of drug-induced homicide, a Class X felony which, if he is convicted, could land him in prison for up to 30 years. The charge stems from the Jan. 26, 2007 discovery…

Watertown, NY – Police say a regular visitor to Re-Sale America Inc., 302 Court St., helped himself to 10 guitars between February and April, causing a loss of $1,990 to the store. Peter J. Thuman, 43, of 1212 Superior St., Apt. G-12, was charged Monday with fourth-degree grand larceny. He awaits grand jury action. Police said that when he visited the store, he arrived with an empty guitar case. While store personnel were distracted, he placed a guitar in the…