Archive for the ‘Art Thief’ Category
Saturday, April 13th, 2013
Heist School
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magazine/06FOB-medium-t.html
Kevin Van Aelst
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: May 31, 2010
On Friday, May 21, the day after five paintings worth roughly $125 million, including works by Braque, Matisse, Modigliani and Picasso, were discovered stolen from the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, an ebullient scandalmonger known as Turbo Paul, who runs two art-theft ...
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Alleged Italian Temple Thief Arrested in Bali
Made Arya Kencana | September 07, 2010
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/alleged-italian-temple-thief-arrested-in-bali/395020
Bali. Police in Bali have arrested an Italian national on suspicion of looting local treasures.
Badung Police chief detective Adjutant Comr. Soma Adnyana told the Jakarta Globe on Tuesday that they had found 110 sacred Hindu objects, known ...
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Millionaire Swede behind Auschwitz sign theft?
http://www.thenews.pl/international/artykul133238_millionaire-swede-behind-auschwitz-sign-theft-.html
09.06.2010 16:27
Anders Hoegstroem, currently in custody in Poland in connection with the theft of the “Arbeit macht frei” sign from the Auschwitz museum last December, claims that a millionaire fellow Swede was the crime‘s mastermind.
According to the private RMF FM radio station, Hoegstroem, the 34 ...
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Tales From the 'Mind-Blowing' Room of Accused Tenderloin Art Thief Terry Helbing
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/06/tales_from_accused_tenderloin.php
By Joe Eskenazi, Tuesday, Jun. 8 2010 @ 2:59PM
Categories: Crime
Last week we wrote about how accused art thief Terry Helbing's amazing single-room occupancy hotel room was the stuff of legend in the Tenderloin -- even before the 53-year-old ...
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Man behind medals theft named
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10649876&pnum=0
By Jared Savage
One of the thieves who stole 96 medals from the Waiouru Army Museum in 2007 is a career criminal who has hundreds of convictions for fraud and dishonesty charges.
The Weekend Herald can reveal Ronald van Wakeren's identity after a court order suppressing his name ...
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Johnson gang leader faces longer sentence
10 May 2010
http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/7534.aspx
THE ringleader of the notorious Johnson family gang, who played the
key role in a series of audacious thefts at stately homes across the
UK, faces an increased prison sentence.
The judge in a confiscation hearing is convinced 34-year-old Danny
O’Loughlin knows where at ...
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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Police seek help finding art thief
http://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/20100508/SAG0801/305089980/police-seek-help-finding-art-thief
May 08, 2010 06:00 am | By Ryan Tumilty | St. Albert Gazette
The RCMP is looking for help finding art thieves who took a set of paintings from a vehicle last month.
The paintings were left in the trunk of a vehicle parked at Red Willow ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Fugitive art dealer Solly Sinai brought from France to NY to face heist charges
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/04/12/2010-04-12_fugitive_art_dealer_solly_sinai_brought_from_france_to_ny_to_face_heist_charges.html
BY Alison Gendar
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, April 12th 2010, 12:57 PM
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A jet-setting dealer has been dragged from France to New York to face charges he sold stolen art and antiques.
Solly Sinai, who worked out of Israel ...
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