Notorious art thief Myles J. Connor, Jr., 69, was arrested for holding up two women at a convenience store in Rhode Island last Thursday.

In 1998, Connor came into the spotlight when he asked the FBI for $5 million in exchange for his help in recovering the still-missing $300 million in paintings stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Connor and his girlfriend, Suzanne King, 48, both of Blackstone, Mass., are being held without bail and charged with first degree armed robbery for taking a cell phone from one of the women.

After his release from federal prison in 2001, Connor penned a tell-all about his infamous museum robberies in the book "The Art of the Heist" (HarperCollins).