Police in Milwaukee are investigating the theft of a Stradivarius violin potentially worth $6 million.
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn said Tuesday that the violin was taken from Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster violinist Frank Almond Monday night during an armed robbery. Flynn said a man and a woman approached Almond outside Wisconsin Lutheran College, where he had just given a performance, and used a Taser on him. The shock knocked Almond to the ground and forced him to drop his violin case, which the suspects promptly took.