German Police Recover 100 John Lennon Items That Were Stolen From Yoko Ono

BERLIN – German police recovered around 100 items that belonged to late Beatles star John Lennon that were stolen from his widow in New York, including three diaries, two pairs of his signature metal-rimmed glasses, a cigarette case and a handwritten music score. The retrieved possessions were displayed Tuesday at Berlin police headquarters. “This was a spectacular, unusual criminal case,” police spokesman Winfrid Wenzel told reporters. German authorities first became aware of the items, stolen from Yoko Ono at her New York home in 2006, when a bankruptcy administrator for the Berlin auction house Auctionata contacted them in July.