Crime & Safety
Stolen Art Mailed Back To MoMa, Police Say
The NYPD is searching for a woman caught on video mailing the photographs.

NEW YORK, NY — A woman was seen on video mailing stolen art work back to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, police said.
NYPD officials said surveillance video at a shipping store caught the woman Thursday as she mailed two stolen photographs valued at $105,000. They were packaged in a large box that she carried into the store.
Police say the two print photographs went missing from the Midtown museum around midday Monday.
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There were no signs of forced entry into the building.
The pictures arrived by mail back at the museum Friday.
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Police said the woman who mailed the pictures is in her 20s and was wearing a dark cap, glasses and a black overcoat. It's not known where the shipping store is located.
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