Paintings worth nearly $2M missing from Brooklyn storage facility
Police released photos of the valuable paintings Thursday after the 69-year-old owner reported them missing from the Crozier Fine Arts warehouse in Brooklyn. (NYPD)
A batch of 19th-Century paintings worth nearly $2 million vanished from a Brooklyn fine arts storage facility, and cops are hoping someone has seen the pilfered paintings.Police released photos of the paintings Thursday. Their 69-year-old owner reported them missing from the Crozier Fine Arts warehouse on Bayard St. in Williamsburg Aug. 16.
He noticed them missing a month earlier, but hadn’t checked in on them since 2014, police sources said.
Cops say the paintings that are all landscapes by artists David Johnson, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Thomas Moran and Thomas Cole, are worth about $1.7 million. (NYPD)
The paintings, all landscapes by artists David Johnson, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Thomas Moran and Thomas Cole, are worth about $1.7 million, cops said.
The security firm Iron Mountain acquired Crozier, which owns several storage facilities, in 2015.
The paintings were reported missing from the Crozier Fine Arts warehouse on Bayard St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (NYPD)
Crozier, in turn, acquired the Bayard St. facility, from Cirkers in January 2017.
Iron Mountain spokesman Christian Potts said the NYPD notified the company of the theft last month.
“Crozier is working cooperatively with the NYPD on the investigation, and is committed to determining the status of the alleged missing items,” he said.
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NYPD turns to the public in unsolved Williamsburg paintings theft
Police in Brooklyn are searching for valuable stolen paintings.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (WABC) —
Nearly seven months after an art theft in Brooklyn, the NYPD is turning to the public for help in cracking the unsolved case.
According to investigators, an art collector was conducting an inventory of his collection at Crozier Fine Arts, a secure, climate controlled storage facility for art in Williamsburg last July when he noticed that six paintings were missing.
The owner then reported them missing to police in August.
The approximate value of the six paintings is $1.7 million. The paintings include works of art by David Johnson, Thomas Moran, and Jasper Francis Cropsey.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COMor by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.
Vandal who punched €9m Monet to be extradited on art theft charge
Ken Foy – 09 March 2018
Andrew Shannon damaging the Monet in the National Gallery in 2012
A criminal who was previously jailed for damaging a €9m Monet painting at the National Gallery is due to be extradited from England today to face fresh charges here.
Andrew Shannon (53) has been serving a short sentence in England for burglary.
It can now be revealed that gardai are traveling to London today to escort him back to Dublin after a European arrest warrant was issued against him.
The warrant relates to the theft of a painting at a hotel in Co Cork, which was discovered by Pearse Street gardai when they raided his home in Ongar, west Dublin, in April 2014 and seized around 60 artworks.
Investigations have established that Shannon was allegedly staying at the hotel when the painting was stolen.
Shannon has 35 previous criminal convictions in Ireland for offenses including theft and burglary, as well as convictions for similar offenses in the UK.
His latest conviction here dates from June 2016, when he was jailed for six months after he was caught with 57 stolen antique books, including an extremely rare King James Bible, worth a total of €6,500.
Dublin Circuit Court heard that the 57 stolen books had originated in the library of Carton House in Kildare, the historical seat of the FitzGerald family.
However, Shannon’s most notable criminal conviction was when he received four-and-a-half years in jail for damaging the Claude Monet painting Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat (1874) at the National Gallery of Ireland on Clare Street, Dublin, on June 29, 2012.
Shannon was captured on CCTV moving forward in the direction of the painting with his arm raised and striking the artwork, causing a substantial tear.
The State’s case was that the damage was premeditated and deliberate.
Shannon, however, contended that he had fallen accidentally after suffering a coronary episode.
Eyewitnesses from New Zealand said they saw Shannon punch the painting and expert evidence established the force of the blow.
Shannon, who has previous convictions for stealing from stately homes in England as well as for handling stolen property involving maps dating from 1651 with a value of €6,000, is not connected to organized crime gangs here.
However, he has been a major target for gardai for years.
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