Last Monday in Málaga, guitarist Rafael Insausti went down to his garage to get his bicycle to take take his daughter to school and to his dismay noticed that the band equipment he was storing was gone.
Amplifiers, speakers, microphones and other items, most belonging to other members of the Free Soul Band, had been stolen.
After taking his daughter to school he went to the police station to report the theft. Although he could accurately describe all the items, he was unable to provide serial numbers and the shop where the items had been bought was closed. He held out little hope of ever recovering the items.
On Thursday he decided to make an appeal via his Facebook profile, listing the items with accompanying photos, and within ten minutes he was contacted by someone who had seen his gear offered for sale on the milanuncios.com website.
Rafael Insausti rang the number given and made an appointment to go and see the equipment. This he did, in the company of plainclothes policemen and the end result was that all the stolen items were located apart from one valve amplifier which had already been sold and shipped to Madrid. The police immediately issued an alert to intercept the shipment.
The man selling the pilfered goods told police that he had found all the items in a rubbish container and was selling them in order to get his daughter a new, latest generation mobile phone.