The State - News from May 23, 1985

Eighteen paintings and etchings by Spanish artist Salvador Dali, valued at more than $600,000 and stolen last June from a Newport Beach gallery, were recovered at a Colton home that sheriff’s deputies said had been under surveillance for three months after a tip. William Kenneth Handrinos, 33, was arrested after reportedly leading officers on a 30-mile chase that began when he returned home and apparently spotted unmarked police vehicles. He was taken into custody at the Chino home of his mother and was charged with child endangerment, because his two children were in the car, and with receiving stolen property. He was jailed in lieu of $250,000 bond. One of the stolen paintings was “Adolescence,” considered one of the eccentric surrealist’s most famous works of the 1940s and worth more than $400,000.