Picasso thief's apartment yields more stolen art
- July 17, 2011 19:28
A police search of the Hoboken, New Jersey, apartment of accused Picasso thief Mark Lugo has turned up other missing artworks.
Lugo, 30, was arrested for swiping a Picasso drawing from a San Francisco gallery on July 5.
The raid recovered 11 stolen pieces in total, worth more than $500,000, mainly from Manhattan galleries and hotels.
From the Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side was a missing $350,000 Léger piece. Another Picasso drawing, which had been taken from the Williams Bennett Gallery in SoHo, was also found.
