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"Police picked up two men and charged them with stealing thousands of dollars worth of musical equipment, including one with a lot of sentimental value.It's been a week of ups and downs for Ben Hardy.\"It's was one of the more difficult phone calls to make,\" said Hardy, who came home from a trip to discover his house had been burglarized.\"They took a mandolin, an acoustic guitar, took another electric guitar, took a bass, took my amps,\" Hardy said.But most important, Hardy said the thieves took a guitar that belonged to his brother, Josh, who died in 1993 from a brain tumor.\"When I came into the house and it was clear that it had been broken into, the first thing I did was run upstairs and check that closet where I keep it and it was gone. That was, you know, your heart sinks,\" said Hardy.The guitar was autographed and given to Josh by members of the band Pearl Jam, on a trip arranged by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.\"It's him. It symbolizes his love of music and that trip and his dying wish,\" said Hardy.On Sunday, police recovered the guitar and arrested two men from Burlington. Jeffrey Leduc and Timothy Crews have been charged with receiving stolen property.\"It's sort of a happy ending to a pretty big ordeal,\" said Hardy.The guitar is damaged. The autographs are sanded off. But to Hardy, it's more about having a piece of his brother back.\"It'll have to be reassembled, but the most important thing is that it's safe and going to be back in our family where it belongs,\" Hardy said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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