During “Elvis Week” celebrated at the singer’s Memphis estate, Graceland fans drove thousands of miles to attend concerts, seminars and the crowning of the “Ultimate Elvis tribute artist”. Some bought souvenirs like T-shirts or ashtrays, but only one made himself an exemption and did something out-of-ordinary : he took a gun that used to belong to Elvis from the Elvis After Dark museum.

The black 9-mm Smith & Wesson pistol was stolen from its display case the last week . The incident was noticed and reported by one museum visitor that saw the glass panel unfastened. Only then the security video cameras proved useful and the police have discovered footage of a man wearing novelty glasses removing the pistol on August, 14, at midnight.

Travis Brooks is the hero of our story, discovering the gun, cleaning it and returning it to the police. The cleaning operation proved necessary, as the man found the gun as he was cleaning the portable toilets behind the museum. So the glasses-wearing man was not such big a fan, to dispose of his treasure so quickly and in such an unusual and unsacred place. The pistol is now in the police evidence room.

The last week Graceland events were a token of consideration to Elvis, in the 30th year after his sudden death.