Earlier this week, a man stole a Picasso sketch from a San Francisco art gallery. The thief was captured on surveillance video from a neighboring bar, which showed a man, wearing sock-free loafers, a dark jacket and large sunglasses, casually strolling down the street with the sketch tucked under his arm and then heading into a cab. Now, a suspect has been caught, and it turns out he's from the Garden State.
After interviewing witnesses, the police were able to find the cab driver and ultimately 31-year-old Mark Lugo, who they arrested. They also recovered the pencil sketch, "Tête de Femme," valued at more than $200,000. He was found at a friend's place in Napa. Police say that he was going to ship the sketch to some other party and they do not think his friends knew of his scheme.
San Francscio police also said, "I would encourage any business in the city, really anything you can do in the way of installing video cameras (will) only help us make our investigations more expeditious."
