My favorite bit comes at the end, when the suspect is arrested in Beall Concert Hall at a University of Oregon Symphony concert, and the police wait until the end of the concert to cuff the guy:<\/p>\n
Officers staked out a Nov. 28 University Symphony Orchestra concert and arrested Tang when the performance ended. Tang was escorted backstage, where he handed his violin to a colleague and was handcuffed, White said.
\n“We didn’t want to ruin the show,” White said. “It was actually a really good concert.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00c2\u00a0 One of a string (no pun intended) of bizarre stories about the often fraud-filled world of stringed instrument dealing. 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