SOUTHLAND : Police Say $1-Million Art Heist in Van Nuys was an Inside Job
The theft of up to $1 million in paintings and other artworks from an art distribution house in Van Nuys was an “inside job,” detectives said today.
Police investigators said two of three owners of Eagle Limited agreed to lie-detector tests in the aftermath of the June 19 theft.
The third, however, Robert Silver, a Boston attorney who told police he was tied up at gunpoint by the thief, refused to submit to the test and has hired a lawyer, detective Lou Bozelle said.
About three-quarters of the artwork--including serigraphs and lithographs--and a company van taken in the theft have been recovered. Bozelle would say only that the recoveries were made “recently” at a location “outside of Los Angeles County.”
An investigation into the theft was continuing, he said.
“All indicators at this time (are) that somebody within the company had information on this thing,” Bozelle said. “I guess you’d call this an inside job.”
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