Los Angeles police recovered more than 100 pieces of stolen art and antique firearms this summer after receiving a tip from an auctioneer.
A quarter-century has passed since the Los Angeles Police Department began investigating a string of break-ins at expensive homes in Hollywood and across the city’s wealthy Westside.
But this summer, detectives received a strange phone call from a Southern California auctioneer. The man recognized a few pictures of stolen items on the department’s website. They were in his gallery.The tip led police to execute four search warrants in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Detectives recovered more than 100 stolen paintings, documents and other antiques, and are now hoping to reunite the pilfered pieces with their rightful owners, investigators said Wednesday.
Carranza declined to identify the auctioneer or auction house that tipped off the LAPD, but said the person who provided the art to the auction house was related to one of the original suspects in the case. Police believe the person inherited the stolen artwork from the suspect, who has since died.“Did this individual know they were stolen? Did this individual know they were receiving stolen property? That’s just part of the investigation that we’re not ready to dive into just yet,” she said.
Police described the two men arrested in connection with the burglaries in 1993 as “Armenian nationals.” One man, Paul Tobeler, was convicted and sentenced to several years in prison in 1996. He died some time after his release, and Carranza said police believe he left the stolen artwork to a relative as part of an inheritance.LAPD has created a website with pictures of the stolen items,
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