OAKLAND \u2014 At least one person stole more than 1,000 items from a storage facility containing artifacts belonging to the Oakland Museum of California earlier this month, authorities said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Police and the FBI were investigating the heist, which happened just before 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 15 at the facility. Police did not give a location for that facility.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Oakland police said they may dealing with one suspect or many. The items included Native American baskets, jewelry and other unspecified artifacts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe theft that occurred represents a brazen act that robs the public of our state\u2019s cultural heritage,\u201d Oakland Museum of California Executive Director and CEO Lori Fogarty said in a statement. \u201cMost of these objects have been given to the Museum by generous donors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fogarty said museum officials are working with the FBI and police detectives \u201cto see that those objects are returned.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police urged anyone with information to contact the Oakland Police Dept. Burglary Section at 510-238-3951 or the FBI Art Crime Team at tips.fbi.gov or 1-800-225-5324.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 At least one person stole more than 1,000 items from a storage facility containing artifacts belonging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[21617,21618,2801,143,145,2536,144],"class_list":["post-29031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-brazen-theft","tag-21618","tag-items","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-museum-of-california","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}