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Los Angeles (AFP) - Los Angeles police and the FBI are investigating a daring heist of nearly $30 million in cash after burglars apparently broke through the roof of a money storage facility and cracked a safe. David Cuellar of the Los Angeles Police Department said the robbery -- one of the largest cash thefts in the city's history -- took place on Easter Sunday in the northern suburb of Sylmar. The Los Angeles Times, citing source familiar with the investigation, said burglars busted through a roof to access the building's vault, somehow evading a sophisticated alarm system. The elaborate an...
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Timber theft, a profitable business, is on the increase in French forests. The gendarmes of Yvelines are tracking down looters, who are responsible for ecological disasters. A forest that existed just a few months ago has been nearly completely eradicated. In Septeuil, located in the Yvelines department, authorities have been probing into the theft of wood for more than a year. The thieves cut the trunks themselves in the surrounding forests. "The type of trees that have been cut down are the beautiful, healthy ones, and what's left are the thin, sickly ones", points out Gabriel Ducrest, comma...
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"There's no place like home", but Judy Garland's iconic ruby red slippers from The Wizard of Oz are off on a world tour instead, ahead of being put up for sale. Stolen nearly 20 years ago from the Judy Garland Museum in the late actor’s hometown, the recovered slippers were given to an auction company, which plans to take them on an international tour - dates for which have yet to be announced. They will go up for auction in December 2024, an official with Dallas-based Heritage Auctions said Monday (18 March). “You cannot overstate the importance of Dorothy’s ruby slippers: They are the most i...
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The 1884 painting ‘The Parsonage Garden at Neuen in Spring’ by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, has been put on display for the first time since its theft in 2020. The painting is at the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, before it returns to its home at the Groninger Museum in Groningen from March 29 as part of the ‘150 Years of the Groninger Museum – Behind the Scenes’ exhibition. ‘The Parsonage Garden at Neuen in Spring’ was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum where it was on loan from Groningen on 30 March 2020. Valued between €3-6 million, it is one of the first paintings by the art...
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An 18th century British painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought it for $7,500 (€6,900) during the Great Depression. The 40-inch-by-50-inch John Opie painting - titled “The Schoolmistress” - is the sister painting of a similar work housed in the Tate Britain art gallery in London. The FBI believes the painting was stolen with the assistance of Anthony Imperiale, a former New Jersey lawmaker, passed among organised crime members, and eventually ended up in St. George, Utah. In 1989, a Utah man bought a house in Flo...
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Parisian restaurant La Tour D’Argent is one of France’s most famous restaurants, with not only a Michelin star menu boasting their famous pressed duck speciality, a spectacular view overlooking Notre Dame, but also a wine cellar that currently boasts some 300,000 bottles. It also has the distinct honour of having served as the inspiration for Gusteau's restaurant in Disney Pixar's greatest film, Ratatouille. However, it is hitting the headlines with a spot of drama, as the staff at the iconic eatery have found that several bottles were missing from its cellar during a routine inventory. The po...
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A dying thief who confessed to stealing a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz because he wanted to pull off “one last score” was given no prison time at his sentencing hearing yesterday (Monday 29 January). Terry Jon Martin, 76, stole the slippers adorned with sequins and glass beads in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in the late actor’s hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Martin showed little emotion as the judge handed down the sentence and declined to address the court. However, defense attorney Dane DeKrey said the resolution of the case should bring a measu...
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Washington (AFP) - An elderly US man who stole a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz" avoided prison time at his sentencing hearing on Monday. Terry Martin, now 76, was sentenced to time served and a year of probation for the 2005 theft as he is in hospice care with six months to live, according to the New York Times. The sequined shoes -- indelibly associated with the character Dorothy clicking them together and saying repeatedly, "there's no place like home" -- were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in the actress's hometown of Grand Rapids, Min...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - An elderly US man pleaded guilty Friday to the theft nearly 20 years ago of a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz." The sequined shoes -- indelibly associated with the character Dorothy clicking them together and saying repeatedly, "there's no place like home" -- were stolen in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in the actress's hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The footwear was recovered in an FBI sting in 2018 and Terry Martin, 76, was charged with the theft in May this year. Martin pleaded guilty to one count of theft of m...
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New York (AFP) - US authorities seized three artworks allegedly looted by the Nazis and which are being sought by the heirs of a Jewish art collector who died in the Holocaust, officials said Thursday. They confirmed a report in The New York Times that said New York investigators had taken these works by the 1900s Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele from three US-based museums. In warrants issued Tuesday and seen by AFP, the New York state supreme court said "there is reasonable cause to believe" the works constitute stolen property. The works were seized from the Art Institute of Chicago, the...
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