Last week, after two months of determined, if sometimes tedious, investigation, Stone recovered the flute, and a suspect was summonsed to Brighton District Court to face felony charges of larceny over $250 and misdemeanor charges of trespassing.
But when a College of Fine Arts music major’s $14,000 sterling silver flute was stolen one afternoon in late August, Brandon Stone, a Boston University Police Department officer, decided he wasn’t going to let the story end there. Larceny is not an uncommon crime on any urban campus, and the laptops and cell phones that disappear are seldom recovered.
