Two van Goghs were stolen 14 years ago. Last week they were found — in a drug kingpin’s safe.

As international art thefts go, the van Gogh heist was rather low tech. In 2002, thieves used a ladder to break into a second-story window at the Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. They snatched two relatively small Van Gogh paintings and escaped by sliding down a rope. The thieves left enough DNA at the scene to be quickly caught and sentenced […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/10/01/two-van-goghs-were-stolen-14-years-ago-last-week-they-were-found-in-a-drug-kingpins-safe/