A man who pretended to be an instrument collector in order to steal over $300,000 of violins and bows has been sentenced to ...

Mark Meng of Irvine posed as a connoisseur interested in growing his collection - but instead stole instruments that area ...

Prosecutors said that the man persuaded music stores to lend him violins worth tens of thousands of dollars on a trial basis, ...

Mark Meng, 58, was sentenced this week to 46 months in federal prison. He’ll face a restitution hearing in June, according to ...

An Irvine man was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for stealing and selling high-end violins and robbing a ...

A California man was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for robbing a bank and orchestrating a scheme to steal priceless violins, some of which were 200 years old, authorities ...