{"id":12028,"date":"2023-10-02T15:37:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T15:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=12028"},"modified":"2023-10-02T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T15:37:12","slug":"boston-police-seek-suspect-viola-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/10\/02\/boston-police-seek-suspect-viola-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Police Seek Suspect in Viola Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12029\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Stolen-Viola.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Stolen-Viola.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Stolen-Viola-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Stolen-Viola-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Stolen-Viola-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of the Boston Police Department<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A $70K viola was stolen in Boston, and police are seeking a suspect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s Up:<\/strong> The Boston police have <a href=\"https:\/\/police.boston.gov\/index.php\/2023\/09\/28\/bpd-community-alert-detectives-assigned-to-district-d-14-seek-the-publics-help-to-identify-an-individual-following-a-larceny-of-a-70000-viola-in-brighton\/\">released photos <\/a>of a <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">suspect they believe to have stolen a $70,000 viola and iPad Pro at the end of August in Allsten, MA. <\/span>The police are seeking information about the viola and the suspect, who is reportedly between 30-40 years of age and between 5\u20199\u201d and 6\u2019 with blond curly hair, blue arm tattoos and a stocky build.<\/p>\n<p>Going Deeper: Violas can range in price from around $20K up to millions of dollars. The silver lining of instrument thefts is they\u2019re often not of much use to their thieves. Berklee College of Music viola professor Rictor Noren noted the lack of a black market for musical instruments such as this one. \u201cThere\u2019s not much a thief can do with it,\u201d he told NBC Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope the viola is restored to its rightful owner soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $70K viola was stolen in Boston, and police are seeking a suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,3],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Stolen-Viola.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12030,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028\/revisions\/12030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12028"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}