Monday's arrest of a 28-year-old man suspected of slaying a renowned Rohnert Park guitar maker may represent a violent collision of two lives that could not have been more different.

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As a Buddhist, Taku Sakashta was a man of peace and quiet demeanor, who worked tirelessly at his Rohnert Park shop crafting guitars that earned the 43-year-old man international acclaim and $30,000 apiece. Joshua Rhea Begley, by contrast, has a long history of arrests in Sonoma County for drug, theft and weapons offenses, and for getting in numerous wild chases with police — apropos of a man whose nickname is “Crash.” Last Monday — three days before Sakashta's body was discovered in the bushes near his shop — Begley escaped from Petaluma police using a handcuff key hidden in his mouth. He was arrested a short time later and booked into Sonoma County Jail before being released again on Tuesday. Begley had three separate criminal cases pending against him related to drugs and escaping from police on Sunday night when Rohnert Park detectives attempted to stop his Jeep Cherokee at about 11:30 p.m. in the city's horseshoe neighborhood.

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