{"id":3247,"date":"2011-12-02T10:50:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/the-very-bad-art-thief-from-hoboken\/"},"modified":"2011-12-06T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:55:36","slug":"the-very-bad-art-thief-from-hoboken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/02\/the-very-bad-art-thief-from-hoboken\/","title":{"rendered":"The Very Bad Art Thief from Hoboken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/crime\/mark-lugo-accused-stealing-artwork-carlyle-chambers-hotels-faces-court-appearance-article-1.985819?localLinksEnabled=false\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Daily News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Convicted Picasso thief Mark Lugo, accused of stealing Leger painting from Carlyle &amp; Chambers hotels, faces court appearance<\/h1>\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/authors?author=%20Melissa%20Grace\" target=\"_blank\">MELISSA GRACE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.985817.1322881833!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_485\/image.jpg\" height=\"297\" width=\"480\" alt=\"San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, left, shows recovered Picasso sketch that Mark Lugo was later convicted of stealing.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A wine steward with a taste for fine art faces arraignment in Manhattan Friday on charges he snatched valuable paintings from two midtown hotels.<\/p>\n<p>Among the stolen works found on the walls of Mark Lugo&#8217;s Hoboken, N.J., apartment was a $350,000\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Fernand+Leger\" target=\"_blank\">Fernand Leger<\/a>\u00a0painting from the lobby of the Carlyle Hotel, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Mark+Lugo\" target=\"_blank\">Lugo<\/a>, 31, who served time in California for stealing a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Pablo+Picasso\" target=\"_blank\">Picasso<\/a>\u00a0sketch from a San Francisco gallery in July, faces grand larceny charges in New York in the Carlyle case and for allegedly making off with five artworks from the Chambers Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t think he intended to sell them. He wanted to display them,&#8221; a source close to the case said of Lugo, who has worked as a restaurant wine steward in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/crime\/mark-lugo-accused-stealing-artwork-carlyle-chambers-hotels-faces-court-appearance-article-1.985819?localLinksEnabled=false\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYDailyNews.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Daily News Convicted Picasso thief Mark Lugo, accused of stealing Leger painting from Carlyle &amp; Chambers hotels, faces court appearance BY\u00a0MELISSA GRACE A wine steward with a taste for fine art faces arraignment in Manhattan Friday on charges he snatched valuable paintings from two midtown hotels. Among the stolen works found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}