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Art nabbers made off with a pair of “Grandma” Moses paintings worth $100,000 each after kidnaping a Boston art gallery employee, police said Sunday. The made-for-TV-like caper began Saturday evening, said Thomas Waelter, sales manager of the Bloch Gallery, when he was abducted by two men at a subway station parking lot. Police said the men jumped out of a white Sears van before Waelter got into his roommate’s car, threw a blanket over his head and shoved him into the rear of the van. “The men called him by name and said they knew where he lived and told him to make it easy on himself,” Boston Police spokeswoman Jill Reilly said. His captors then drove Waelter to the gallery and forced him to turn off its computerized alarm before breaking in. Besides making off with the Anna Mary Robertson Moses paintings, police said the suspects took eight other paintings that have yet to be identified.