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Police Recover Artworks Stolen from Vancouver Museum

By ARTINFO

Published: June 10, 2008
VANCOUVER—Police in British Columbia have found some of the artworks stolen from the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology on May 23, CBC News reports. A number of the works have been recovered intact after a raid on a home in south Burnaby, but police would not say how many or which ones; the theft included twelve works of gold jewelry by the late Canadian artist Bill Reid and three Mexican necklaces made of gold coins. Police also would not say whether they have made any arrests.
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