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Source: Associated Press
Police: Man smashes ancient museum artifacts worth millions
June 2, 2022
DALLAS (AP) A man broke into the Dallas Museum of Art and caused more than $5 million in damage, including smashing three ancient Greek artifacts before he was arrested, police said.
Brian Hernandez, 21, is charged with criminal mischief of more than or equal to $300,000, which is punishable by five years to life in prison. He was booked Thursday into the Dallas County jail with bond set at $100,000. Jail records list no attorney for Hernandez.
According to police, Hernandez used a metal chair to break into the museum about 9:45 p.m. Wednesday and began a destructive rampage.
He broke into a display case and smashed a 6th century B.C. Greek amphora and a Greek pot dating to 450 B.C. Police say those two items alone were worth about $5 million. Also smashed were a bowl from 6th century B.C., worth about $100,000, and a ceramic Caddo effigy bottle valued at about $10,000.
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H2O Man
(73,559 posts)Terrible.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)Those artifacts lasted so long and then had to get destroyed by a modern day berserker.
Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)LeftInTX
(25,381 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,556 posts)The DMA doesn't seem that easy to get into just by looking at it. He got in by smashing a door with a metal chair?
It's really a nice museum, we're members. With covid haven't been for awhile.
This is terrible.
Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)Trusted us with their collections to ask for them back.
tanyev
(42,568 posts)2naSalit
(86,647 posts)That's just fucked up.
MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)The girlfriend is next on his hit list. He will blame his arrest on her. If I were the girlfriend, I'd be highstepping it the hell outta there.
pansypoo53219
(20,981 posts)DFW
(54,408 posts)Give him the max. Let him take the full five years to think up another version of "fun."