{"id":111783,"date":"2011-07-08T11:25:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T06:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=111783"},"modified":"2011-07-08T11:25:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T06:25:59","slug":"man-who-simply-walked-in-gallery-stole-picasso-piece-now-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/07\/08\/man-who-simply-walked-in-gallery-stole-picasso-piece-now-arrested.html","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Simply Walked In Gallery &#038; Stole Picasso Piece Now Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey man who has worked in high-end restaurants in New York City flew to San Francisco on the Fourth of July, walked into a Union Square gallery the next day and stole a Pablo Picasso pencil drawing (not pictured) from the wall, police said Thursday in announcing his arrest, reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/07\/07\/MNC41K7JHQ.DTL\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Lugo, 30, who lives in Hoboken, NJ, had Picasso&#8217;s &#8220;T\u00eate de Femme (Head of a Woman)&#8221; ready for shipment when San Francisco police arrested him at 9:30 pm Wednesday at an apartment complex in Napa, where he was visiting friends, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The 1965 sketch by the Spanish artist was in Lugo&#8217;s room there, missing the frame that had held it at the Weinstein Gallery on Geary Street but otherwise undamaged, Police Chief Greg Suhr said.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe Lugo was working alone and had planned to ship the artwork, which the gallery was selling for more than $200,000, to an unknown party. In the meantime, said police Lt. Ed Santos, &#8220;he was enjoying an evening with friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He had it very nicely and professionally boxed up,&#8221; said Rowland Weinstein, who owns the gallery where the piece was stolen and viewed it Thursday. &#8220;If the police had waited just another day, it would have been in a FedEx box somewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey man who has worked in high-end restaurants in New York City flew to San Francisco on the Fourth of July&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[29365,29362,28132,29363,29364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}