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A man accused of blaring stolen musical instruments in the face of law enforcement last week is facing new burglary charges while being held on a quarter-million dollar bond.

Michael O'Keefe last week walked into Missoula City Hall equipped with multiple saxophones and began playing them loudly in front of the police department, Missoula Police Sgt. and Public Information Officer Travis Welsh said.

Welsh could hear the noise from his office, deep in the police department's interior offices. He went outside to try reasoning with the man, he said. About the same time, the department received a call from a music store notifying authorities that two saxophones had been stolen that very morning.

According to charging documents filed Dec. 4, O'Keefe allegedly took two saxophones from the Stringed Instrument Division around 10 a.m. that day. An employee from the shop said he saw a man carrying them out of the store. One sax was reportedly valued at $1,700, the second was worth about $1,050.

When O'Keefe came to the police department later that day, he reportedly told officers they were family heirlooms that had been stolen from him, but he was unable to provide any more details.