The State - News from Sept. 10, 1985

Eight tons of bronze artwork valued at $400,000, including 19th-Century pieces and two complete subway entrances from France, were stolen piece by piece from a storage shed in Redding over the last year and sold for scrap, officials said. Some of the artwork has been recovered, but most was destroyed when the thieves cut it up with a torch, Shasta County Sheriff’s Sgt. Rusty Brewer said. The uninsured artwork was taken after September, 1984, owner Nicolaas Dorsje of Beverly Hills told investigators. The thieves made at least six trips to the scrap yard with truckloads of bronze and sold it for between $120 and $150 a load. “At most, they made a couple of thousand dollars,” Brewer said.