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Artwork stolen from California hospital

Healthcare Security Weekly, April 12, 2007

A woman, whose actions were caught on a security camera, stole two paintings worth $1,600 from a Redwood City, CA hospital.

 

Police are searching for the woman who stole the paintings in broad daylight from Sequoia Hospital. The theft occurred in the early afternoon of March 21 and was caught on tape by a hospital security camera, reported the Oroville Mercury-Register.

 

Video footage showed the woman looked directly into a security camera, then removed a painting from a hospital hallway wall and carried the artwork into a nearby women's restroom. She then left the bathroom and removed another painting from a wall and walked out of the hospital with both paintings. The paintings were privately owned by local artists and were on display at the hospital.

 

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