A couple of passengers on allegedly stole about $13,000 worth of art off the Legend last month.
The cruise left for Bermuda on September 24 and returned on September 30. Just a few days later, an art discovered a number of sculptures were missing from the ship’s , according to . That’s when investigators and showed the couple walking into the gallery empty-handed and walking out of the room holding objects that reportedly looked like sculptures.
Investigators then found a Facebook profile of the man identified on . FBI agents noticed a recent photo of him “wearing what appears to be the same white dress shirt, dark-colored vest, and striped tie” from the ship’s security footage.
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A spokesperson with the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland the FBI carried out a search warrant and found the sculptures at the couple’s homes in Baltimore. The FBI said in the court documents it was deliberating pressing charges for theft and transportation of stolen goods.
The larger of the stolen sculptures is a piece of artwork by Robert Wyland called “Kiss the Sea,” which the FBI estimates is worth $6,200. The other sculpture recovered is “Tappin’ the Keys for the Love” by Marcus Glenn, worth some $6,600, the FBI says. Both pieces are small enough to fit in a regular-sized backpack.
The were apparently on board because conducts an auction for artwork — like paintings, drawings and sculptures – on every ship, Insider says.
A search warrant filed by in the District Court of said authorities were looking into federal charges in regard to the theft and , according to . As of right now, no one has been charged.
It’s apparently not the first the time FBI has been called in to recover stolen artwork. Just last month, the FBI recovered a 300-year-old painting that was stolen from a German museum in 1945 by a Chicago resident, according to Insider. I can only assume the commotion of made it an easy heist. Back in 2018, the FBI recovered a painting that had been missing for three decades that was stolen by a man who had ties to a Bulgarian syndicate.