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CRIME BLOTTER

Artful Felons

By Doug Black

A number of recent misdeeds have strayed from the norm and centered on objects d'art. “Children With a Cart,” a 228-year-old painting by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes and valued at over $1 million, was stolen while en route to New York from a museum in Toledo, Ohio. The Goya was slated to a show in an exhibit of Spanish painters at the Guggenheim beginning in mid-November. According to the museums, the painting was swiped from the unattended car of a professional transporter at a rest stop near Scranton, Pa. Apparently, the precautionary measures employed by professional art transporters can’t prevent the inevitability of pee breaks.  

Also, police charged Donna Cobb, a Hamilton Heights woman, with murdering her husband, Kevin Cobb, who collapsed and died while leaving his house at 6 a.m. When the police arrived, Donna Cobb said that they had been in an altercation earlier that evening, in which Mr. Cobb had allegedly choked her. In response to his attack, Ms. Cobb admitted to repeatedly beating him on the chest with a ceramic elephant, which may have contributed to his untimely death. Generally considered a sign of good luck, the decorative elephant may never have embodied such deranged irony.

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