Three charged in US over stolen lyric notes from Eagles’ Don Henley

New York authorities have charged three individuals concerning their possession of 100 pages of lyric notes from Eagles frontman Don Henley.

In a news release on Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) announced that Glenn Horowitz, 66, Craig Inciardi, 58, and Edward Kosinski, 59, had all been charged as part of the scheme.

The manuscripts were originally stolen by a writer who had been hired to pen a biography of the rock band more than 40 years ago, according to court documents. The author purportedly sold the manuscripts to Horowitz in 2005. Horowitz, a rare book dealer, then sold them to Inciardi and Kosinski.

After learning about the stolen manuscripts, Henley himself sought to intervene, including by filing a police report.

Authorities noted that Horowitz attempted to prevent himself from being criminally prosecuted by creating a new false statement of provenance that claimed that band member Glenn Frey, who died in 2016, was the original owner of the stolen material.