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Art Transport * USA - In question
Goya, other thefts spur scrutiny of shipping safetyToledo,OH,USA -The Toledo Blade, by TAHREE LANE -Nov 24, 2006: -- When a Budget rental truck full of artworks worth millions of dollars — including seven paintings by abstract expressionist Milton Avery — disappeared in April en route to New York from Florida, police had an ace in the hole... The vehicle shuttling the pieces from art collectors and dealers in Florida to galleries and homes in the north was equipped with Global Positioning Satellite technology, enabling police to locate the parked, 24-foot truck, its cargo intact, in Gainesville, Fla... They apprehended the driver at a nearby trailer park. He worked for a professional fine-art transporter, and unbeknownst to the people who had arranged for safe passage of their goods, he had a criminal background... (Picture: This 1778 Goya painting owned by the Toledo Museum of Art was stolen, then recovered)
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