Getaway Car Guy Gets Sentenced in "Scream" Caper
By Richard Amada on Jul 6, 2009 | In Visual Arts
Just in case you were wondering what kind of sentence you could get for providing the getaway car in a fine art heist, a Norwegian court handed down a two-and-a-half year sentence to the man whom the prosecutors in the case said helped procure the car used in the 2004 robbery of Edvard Munch's classic paintings, "The Scream" and "Madonna," from an Oslo museum.
The paintings were recovered two years after they were swiped in broad daylight. However, they required some restoration upon their return. According to the Associated Press, the court ruled that the getaway car guy didn't have to kick in for the cost of that restoration.
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