30 plus works including Picasso, Matisse stolen

"Several artworks including Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse have been stolen from an exhibition at a small gallery in Berlin’s Wilmersdorf district." " The etchings, prints and sculptures included “Profil au fond noir,” a 1947 work by Picasso; “Nude in a rocking...

Four paintings sought after €112m Zurich heist

"Three armed men are being sought after paintings by Cézanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet were stolen from a private museum in Zurich. The paintings, which were stolen yesterday, have been valued at €112m. They are: 'Poppies near Vetheuil' by Claude Monet (1879),...

Arrest in third largest Armored Car Heist

" COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The Richland County Sheriff's Department announced Thursday that an arrest has been made in the nation's third largest armored car heist in history. It took place in May of 2007, right here in Columbia, South Carolina.  Authorities...

Biggest heist in the world

"The £53 million seized by the robbers amounted to the biggest peacetime cash heist in the world. # Five men convicted over Securitas robbery It was double the size of the previous biggest robbery in Britain - the £26.5 million raid on the Northern Bank in Belfast three...

Trucks being heisted for scrap value

Trucks being heisted for scrap value Trucks are increasingly being stolen for their value as scrap and recycled materials, UK authorities have warned the road haulage industry. Two possible causes have been identified for the rise in truck theft. First is the high prices now...

ART HEIST WAS A 'FLAME'-UP

October 10, 2007 -- A crew of amateur art thieves stole roughly $600,000 worth of paintings from the Hamptons mansion of a former Revlon CEO and torched the home to cover up the heist, prosecutors said yesterday. Officials said the group's ringleader, Patrick Padden, 50,...

Five indicted in $1M Hamptons art heist

Five East End men have been indicted in connection with an art heist that destroyed an East End mansion along with more than $1 million in paintings.Three men pleaded not guilty yesterday in the January 2006 arson and art theft. Patrick Padden, 50, of Westhampton, was charged...