2 Confessions in Painting Theft Called 1 Too Many
Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators say they have one confession too many in the theft of a 17th-Century Dutch painting recovered at the apartment of two Lancaster men.
Jereld Sharitz, 23, an art student at Antelope Valley College, where the painting was stolen Nov. 6, and Timothy Cain, a 27-year-old grocery clerk, were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of grand theft. Both confessed to taking the painting, “Nymphs Gathering Flowers in a Landscape,” by Gerard Hoet, Detective J. Siebert said Wednesday.
“They’re probably trying to protect each other,” he said.
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