FBI Visits House of Gangster Tied to $500M Art Heist

The FBI on May 2, 2016, was at the Manchester, CT, house of Robert Gentile, the reputed gangster whom authorities believe is prominently linked to the paintings stolen in the high-profile $500 million heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, according to press reports.

Gentile, 79, is currently being held without bail on an April 2015 arrest on federal weapons charges. His lawyer asserts the FBI has drummed up the charges to force his cooperation on the theft.

• WATCH: Surveillance video relating to the heist.
• SEE: Images of the stolen artwork.

In March 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as police officers stole 13 pieces of art from the Gardner Museum. The two men allegedly gathered the two security guards on duty and used handcuffs and duct tape to secure them in the basement.

In 2013 the FBI said they knew who robbed the museum.

The Gardner Museum is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the recovery of the stolen pieces in good condition. According to the museum, the stolen pieces were:

Rembrandt’s Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633), A Lady and Gentleman in Black (1633) and a Self Portrait (1634), an etching on paper; Vermeer’s The Concert (1658–1660); and Govaert Flinck’s Landscape with an Obelisk (1638); and a Chinese vase or Ku; Five works on paper by the Impressionist artist Edgar Degas and a finial from the top of a pole support for a Napoleonic silk flag; and Edouard Manet’s Chez Tortoni (1878–1880).

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Photo is FBI sketch of two suspects.

Correction: The original version of this report had Gentile's house in Manchester, N.H.