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18 months in prison and $30,000 fine in thefts of museum art objects

John A. Rodriquez and Beverly A. Tomasso charged in New London, CT, mausoleum break-in.

Frank Lloyd Wright chair, Darwin D. Martin House; Maurice de Vlaminck, Environs of Le Havre, among more than 100 works, warehoused private collection; Tom Codrich attribution, Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice, one of five original Fantasia watercolors lent to Museum of Cartoon Art, Rye Brook, N.Y.; Louis Bertin Parant, Emperor Napoleon I cameo and 49 other miniatures, Cincinnati private collection; Chaim Soutine, L'Apprenti, hijacked in Manhattan; Georges Seurat, Le Cocher de Fiacre, private collection; Jacob Maentel, Portrait of The Wiestling Family, Maryland Historical Society, Frederick; Jean Honoré Fragonard, Royal Ladies at St. Denis, and Duccio di Buoninsegna attribution, New Madonna, Geneva, Switzerland, bank vault; René Lalique, bracelet.

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Rudolf von Alt, Odessa; Jupiter Capitolinus, Daedalus Gallery, New York; Peter Paul Rubens, Perseus and Andromeda, and Hans Baldung, The Virgin feeding the Child, recovered by The Netherlands from Ian Woodner collection and Dorotheum auction house; van Gogh, The Potato Eaters, and 19 other important van Gogh oils, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, four arrests; Lee Krasner, The Eye is the First Circle, and David Salle, Sales Girls, Robert Miller Gallery; Picasso, Head of a Woman with Gold Earrings (Portrait of Dora Maar), and René Magritte, Sans Famille, Emily Staempfli collection; Mexican Olmec were-jaguar axe, Guatemalan Mayan cylinder vase, Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art, La Jolla, Calif., loan exhibition, one arrest; Peter Paul Rubens, Aurora, museum in La Coruña, Spain; Picasso, Absinthe and Cards, among four Picassos, Prague National Gallery; some arrests.

Jes Camby finds Osiris statuette in antiques shop; refuses reward; FBI investigation leads to Chinese rock crystal sphere.

Reward offered for return of John Chamberlain work on paper, Saint Bub (1961), stolen in transit from Dresden to Cologne.

Paintings, Pastels, Mixed Media Works, Watercolors: Alt, van Gogh, Goya y Lucientes, Krieghoff, Stewern, Vlaminck. Sculpture: Andino. Liturgical Objects: Casket. Mosaics landscapes. Silver Cinerary urn. Tapestries, Textiles: Flemish, French tapestries. Chinese: sphere. Egyptian: Osiris bronze.

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16th-century miniature altar stolen from Victoria and Albert Museum, London; pair of Louis XV ormolu andirons stolen from car in New York.