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 stores had loaned him, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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

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

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

The FBI is actively combating violent crime across the United States, addressing a wide spectrum of offenses through ...