Rohana will plead guilty to a lesser charge in order to escape potential decades behind bars, PhillyVoice reported. The initial charges threatened a potential year prison sentence for theft and concealment of a cultural heritage object. Video footage showed Rohana taking a selfie with a 2,year-old statue depicting a cavalryman, then breaking off its thumb and placing it in his pocket.
Chinese authorities did not take kindly to the phalange felon, prompting the city of Philadelphia to pass a an official resolution apologising for the infraction.
Henry said in her closing statements. Michael Barzman will pay a fine, do community service and be on probation for his role in the forgery scandal. Preston Jay Spotted Eagle has been sentenced to five years probation on charges of stealing government property from his former employer, the Museum of the Plains Indian on the Blackfoot reservation in Montana.
Vadym Huzhva handed a five-year sentence for theft and for stealing four other paintings in France, including a Renoir. Art market. Adventures with Van Gogh. Art crime. Man fingered in Philadelphia theft of thumb from terracotta warrior will plead guilty. A man whose drunken antics at a ugly sweater party at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia got him in hot water with the FBI, is expected to take a plea bargain in order to avoid jail time.
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