{"id":281544,"date":"2026-04-23T05:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281544\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:39:09","slug":"guitar-tied-to-buck-owens-recovered-at-pawn-shop-after-theft-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281544\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar tied to Buck Owens recovered at pawn shop after theft investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A guitar tied to Bakersfield country music legend Buck Owens has been recovered after it was stolen from a car this week and later turned up at a local pawn shop.<\/p>\n

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A guitar tied to Buck Owens was recovered at a pawn shop after a theft investigation in Bakersfield. The owner, Dianne Sharman, says this was a miracle. KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n

The red, white, and blue guitar had been donated by the Buck Owens family to a nonprofit led by Dianne Sharman. <\/p>\n

Sharman said it was intended to be signed by people interviewed for a documentary about the Bakersfield Sound.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Buck Owens family donated this to our nonprofit, to have all of the people who were interviewed and were a part of the documentary, to autograph it,\u201d Sharman said.<\/p>\n

Sharman said the guitar was connected to a video documentary titled \u201cTreble and Twang. The music that came out of Bakersfield.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The theft happened Tuesday evening after Sharman brought the guitar to Bakersfield for a library program called \u201cBoots, Books, and Buck\u201d at the Beale Memorial Library. <\/p>\n

Sharman said she had used the guitar as a prop during story time and then rushed to pack up as rain started to fall.<\/p>\n

After leaving the library, Sharman and her husband stopped for dinner at a restaurant on Union Avenue. <\/p>\n

Sharman said she believed her car was locked, but when they returned, she realized it was not.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, Oh, my gosh, Mark, my car is unlocked,\u201d Sharman said. <\/p>\n

She said the rear lift gate was partially open. <\/p>\n

\u201cI opened it up the full way, and the red, white, and blue guitar, in its case, was gone. My little record player that I played the 45 records of Buck Owens, was gone,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Sharman said she became emotional when she realized the items were missing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started crying, because this was a part of our efforts to save the history of the Bakersfield Sound,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Sharman said the couple went to the Bakersfield Police Department and were told to file a report online before distributing flyers publicly. <\/p>\n

Sharman said she worried that waiting to complete the report would take too long.<\/p>\n

\"AA guitar tied to Buck Owens was recovered at a pawn shop after a theft investigation in Bakersfield. The owner, Dianne Sharman, says this was a miracle.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut I knew the hour drive home to do that and to get back to town. It might be too late,\u201d Sharman said. \u201cAnd so I just told Mark, my husband, we need to drop these off at the pawn shops.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, the couple drove to pawn shops around Bakersfield, showing flyers with photos of the guitar and its case and explaining its significance. <\/p>\n

At their last stop, Bakersfield Best Pawn Shop on 6th Avenue, Sharman said an employee named “Collin” told them he would alert others.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, ‘I will make sure everybody in the pawn shop sees this,’ and if it’s brought in, we definitely will contact you,\u201d Sharman said.<\/p>\n

Sharman said Collin called a short time later to say the people who had taken the guitar were in the shop and that police had been called. <\/p>\n

Sharman said she and her husband returned and arrived about 10 to 15 minutes later.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we arrived, the police were there, and they had the suspects under arrest,\u201d Sharman said.<\/p>\n

Sharman said the guitar was recovered in perfect condition. <\/p>\n

She said she had not yet completed the online police report at the time it was recovered, but planned to submit it.<\/p>\n

Sharman said police asked whether she wanted to press charges, and she decided she would.<\/p>\n

Sharman said the guitar will continue to be used at community events to share the history of the Bakersfield Sound. <\/p>\n

She said it is expected to be displayed on May 14 at the Beale Memorial Library at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A guitar tied to Bakersfield country music legend Buck Owens has been recovered after it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-281544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}