Hi Everyone,

This is a short follow-up article concerning a missing truckload of
art and antiques that dissapeared - it turns out that the art moving
company had hired a convicted felon as a driver. Well, all's well ends
well...

Cheers!
Dave

David Harvey
Conservator
Los Angeles, California
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May 4, 2006
Truckload of Missing Art Recovered in Florida Trailer Park

By ALAN FEUER
A multimillion-dollar art heist that began two weeks ago when a
truckload of paintings, sculpture and antique furniture vanished on
the road from southern Florida to New York ended on Wednesday night in
a most unlikely place: a 30-year-old trailer park in Gainesville.

It was there, at the 300-family Arredondo Farms, that a task force of
the Gainesville Police Department and the Alachua County sheriff's
office arrested the driver of the truck, Patrick J. McIntosh, after
they had surrounded a trailer belonging to what one official called
"his baby's momma's sister." Mr. McIntosh surrendered without
incident, the authorities said, and the art was found intact.

"The guy gave up," said Sgt. Keith Faulk, who works for the sheriff's
office. "He was a big ol' boy, too — 6-8, 280. I think he might have
thought about slipping out. Then again we had the residence
surrounded."

Mr. McIntosh, 36, had been missing since April 17, when he and his
24-foot Budget rental truck pulled out of Boca Raton with millions of
dollars worth of art, including seven canvasses by the Abstract
Expressionist painter Milton Avery. He had been hired by David Jones
Fine Art Services to deliver the art from private dealers and
collectors — and at least one museum — in Boca Raton to a series of
homes and galleries in New York.

"He appeared to be very polite, very hardworking, you know,
dependable," said Susan Buzzi, who works for David Jones. "But who
knows what lurks — well, it's a mystery I suppose."
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