Getting In Was Tough, Then He Faced the Music : Crime: In was just one sour note after another for a burglary suspect who found himself trapped in a store, police said.

A man who police said was trying to break into a music store to steal a guitar crashed through the ceiling onto a grand piano and found himself trapped inside before desperately breaking out windows and a rear door to escape.

“He was kind of a bumbling burglar,” Police Lt. Gary Webster said.

Authorities allege that Norman Sjobeck, 24, of Newport Beach broke into Coast Music Service on 19th Street early Friday and tried to steal two guitars--a Fender bass and a Rickenbacker--but instead wound up nearly trapped inside the shop.

Joel Morris, the owner of the store, said an intruder broke into the shop through the ceiling by removing an air-conditioning unit and then gaining access to a roof crawlway. The ceiling apparently gave way as the intruder crawled through, and he landed on a $16,000 grand piano.

Webster said that whoever broke in apparently was not seriously injured after the fall, and took two guitars from a wall display and tried to get out a back door. But without a key, he was stuck inside.

“Now that he can’t get out the back, he decides that he’ll pull a John Wayne and punch out a window,” Webster said. But even the windows, it turned out, were blocked by burglar bars. Webster said the intruder smashed the windows in an attempt to escape but in the process cut his arm.

A trail of blood was found inside the store. It led to a rear door, which had been broken down. The guitars were reportedly left behind during the escape.

Police officers checked local hospitals early Friday and located Sjobeck at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and Medical Center, where he was arrested on suspicion of commercial burglary. Webster said that Sjobeck sustained an arm cut which required 20 stitches to close. He told police that he had been cut in a knife fight.

By mid-morning, the music shop was still littered with large patches of blood--on the floor, rugs, doorknobs and even on a few sets of drums.

“If he didn’t get out,” Detective Bill Redmond said, “he would have probably bled to death.”

Sjobeck, who police said was a musician and bore a tattoo with the name of the 1970s New Wave band Devo, was taken to Costa Mesa City Jail and released on $10,000 bail Friday afternoon. He could not be reached for comment Friday.