Accused Picasso Thief Pleads Guilty - Mark Lugo, the Hoboken, N.J., man who was charged this summer with stealing a Picasso drawing from a San Francisco art gallery — and whose lawyer said at the time that he planned to plead not guilty — has now pleaded guilty to grand theft, the BBC reported.
Mr. Lugo was arrested at a hotel in Napa, Calif., shortly after the daytime theft at the Weinstein Gallery, and the drawing, "Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman)" from 1965, valued at $275,000, was found with him. A subsequent search of his apartment in Hoboken turned up other works stolen in Manhattan, including a photograph by Jean-Michel Basquiat from the Skot Foreman gallery, a Fernand Léger sketch from the Carlyle Hotel and another Picasso sketch, from the William Bennett Gallery.
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Mr. Lugo has been in jail in San Francisco since July, and his guilty plea on Thursday came as part of deal that will release him, under supervision, in November. He will then be sent to New York, where he faces additional theft charges related to the trove discovered in his apartment. ( nytimes.com )
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