LAPD investigating midnight heist of $1.5 million Buddha statue
LOS ANGELES — The thief pulled up to an antiquities gallery on La Cienega Boulevard with a clear plan. He backed a rental van into the gallery driveway, broke through a gate and entered a storage yard carrying a moving dolly. Bypassing African wood carvings, Japanese terracotta roof tiles and assorted stone sculptures, he seized a massive 250-pound bronze Buddha statue worth $1.5 million. The ...
by Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times
Sep 23, 2023
2 minutes
LOS ANGELES — The thief pulled up to an antiquities gallery on La Cienega Boulevard with a clear plan.
He backed a rental van into the gallery driveway, broke through a gate and entered a storage yard carrying a moving dolly. Bypassing African wood carvings, Japanese terracotta
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