Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Highway billboards will show the pieces and invite tipsters.
FBI officials announced Monday they know who committed one of the biggest art heists in history, but they still need the public's help to locate $500 million worth of missing artwork, some of which they believe is in the Philadelphia area. The heist, which happened at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, led to the theft of 13 works of art by by Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Govaert Flinck, Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet. Two thieves dressed as Boston Police officers infiltrated the museum, tied up the guards, and stole the artwork, according to the FBI. And for many years, that's where the case went cold. But thanks to a tip that came in in 2010, 20 years after the theft, FBI officials now believe the stolen artwork may be in …
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Richard Petrone worked at Viking Pastries.
The Philadelphia office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released the following statement Tuesday: The FBI, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Philadelphia Police Department Homicide Division are continuing to investigate the disappearance of Richard Petrone and Danielle Imbo (née October). The pair was last seen at 11:30 p.m. on February 19, 2005, leaving a bar (formerly Abilene’s Bar) on 4th and South Streets in Philadelphia, in Petrone's 2001 Dodge Dakota pickup truck. Investigators have reason to believe that Petrone and Imbo were victims of foul play; neither the couple nor the vehicle have been found. Richard Petrone was a single parent living in South Philadelphia, and worked full time at his family’s business…
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The FBI says Dorothy June Hairston Brown defrauded three charter schools, which she founded, between 2007 and 2011.
A Haverford woman was charged Tuesday with defrauding three charter schools she founded, costing them $6.5 million. The indictment from the U.S. Attorney's office accused Dorothy June Hairston Brown, 75, of committing the crimes between 2007 and 2011. Along with Brown, four colleagues are charged with conspiring with Brown to obstruct justice, according to the indictment: Joan Woods Chalker, 74, of Springfield; Michael A. Slade, Jr., 31, of Philadelphia; Courteney L. Knight, 64, of King of Prussia; and Anthony Smoot, 49, of New Castle, Delaware. Together, Brown and her colleagues are charged with 62 counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice, wire fraud (50 counts), witness tampering, obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting. Brown is …
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The township last reported incidents in 1996.
Over 6,000 hate crimes were reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2010, but none of those instances occurred in Lower Merion or Narberth, according to the FBI’s 2010 Hate Crime Statistics report released Monday. The 6,628 instances reported nationally in 2010 followed a year of 6,604 such offenses in 2009, according to the Bureau’s statistics. Representatives from the FBI called hate crime investigations “the number one priority in our civil rights program” in a statement. “Almost a fourth of our 2010 civil rights caseload involved crimes motivated by a particular bias against the victim,” said Eric Thomas, an FBI civil rights chief. “We frequently worked these cases with state and local law enforcement to ensure that justice …
Tom
12:20 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
So basically if I had one of the pieces, I could sell it back for $5M ?! Statute of limitations is up for the crime, I think I would take the money and give back the painting :) more ›