The indictments allege the thieves would melt the silver and gold items down into transportable discs that were sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The thefts took place over more than two decades at 20 museums, institutions and stores across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Washington, D.C., and North Dakota, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said Thursday.
It was unclear which items will be returned to their owners or to the museums, but authorities said some of those valuables had been recovered. The indictments also note that a handful of the suspects were involved in each break-in, casing security at targeted museums, planning and then one or two people executing the actual thefts. The suspects would then sell and trade items with the larger group, according to court records.
Karam provided few details of how investigators from the FBI to local police departments cracked the case, saying only that evidence uncovered recently unraveled the ring’s activities.
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