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FBI Offers Reward For Return Of Stolen Paintings

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published August 18, 2015 at 4:39 PM EDT
The FBI believes these two paintings by Wyeth, stolen in Portland, Maine in 2013 are somewhere in New England
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The FBI believes these two paintings by Wyeth, stolen in Portland, Maine in 2013 are somewhere in New England
The FBI believes these two paintings by Wyeth, stolen in Portland, Maine in 2013 are somewhere in New England
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The FBI believes these two paintings by Wyeth, stolen in Portland, Maine in 2013 are somewhere in New England

The FBI is seeking the public’s help in solving a significant New England art theft.

The head of the Boston FBI office, Special Agent in Charge Vincent Lisi announced a $20,000 reward for the return of two N.C. Wyeth paintings stolen from a private collector in Portland, Maine.

" Anybody who has any information about these paintings, the whereabouts, or who may have stolen them can contact the FBI via our online tip line, or telephone directly," said Lisi.

Four of the six paintings that were stolen from a home in Portland in 2013 were recovered at a pawn shop in Beverly Hills, California.  Three people have been charge in connection with the case.

Lisi said authorities believe the two missing paintings are somewhere in New England.

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Paul Tuthill
Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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