Marietta police officers on Thursday discovered a cache of stolen musical equipment worth $100,000 on a deserted private drive near Lockheed Elementary School off Merritt Road.

The equipment has since been returned to its owner, but police are still trying to identify whoever broke into a home and stole the items earlier this week. The stock pile of musical instruments — 13 guitars, two amplifiers and various related equipment — were apparently discarded about 100 yards off of the main road in a wooded area.

The equipment had no identifying marks or labels, but detectives tracked down the owner through a company that made some of the recovered guitars.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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