(Dallas) Police: Man smashes ancient museum artifacts worth millions

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Police: Man smashes ancient museum artifacts worth millions

June 2, 2022

DALLAS (AP) — A man broke into the Dallas Museum of Art and caused more than $5 million in damage, including smashing three ancient Greek artifacts before he was arrested, police said.

Brian Hernandez, 21, is charged with criminal mischief of more than or equal to $300,000, which is punishable by five years to life in prison. He was booked Thursday into the Dallas County jail with bond set at $100,000. Jail records list no attorney for Hernandez.

According to police, Hernandez used a metal chair to break into the museum about 9:45 p.m. Wednesday and began a destructive rampage.

He broke into a display case and smashed a 6th century B.C. Greek amphora and a Greek pot dating to 450 B.C. Police say those two items alone were worth about $5 million. Also smashed were a bowl from 6th century B.C., worth about $100,000, and a ceramic Caddo effigy bottle valued at about $10,000.

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[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

Terrible.

[Aristus]

2. Goddamn. This country's coming apart at the seams...

[panader0]

10. Maybe the guy that tried to "cake" the Mona Lisa inspired him. Both, of course, are insane.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. We need justice instead of slaps on the wrist. /nt

[dhol82]

4. That's heartbreaking.

Those artifacts lasted so long and then had to get destroyed by a modern day berserker.

[Beaverhausen]

5. Did he film it and put it on TikTok?

[LeftInTX]

6. "he got mad at his girl so he broke in and started destroying property"

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/man-who-got-mad-at-his-girl-admits-to-destroying-5-1-million-in-art-at-dallas-museum/2983720/

[Liberal In Texas]

7. Jesu H Christo.

The DMA doesn't seem that easy to get into just by looking at it. He got in by smashing a door with a metal chair?



It's really a nice museum, we're members. With covid haven't been for awhile.

This is terrible.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Maybe it's time for countries that have

Trusted us with their collections to ask for them back.

[tanyev]

9. Hope he gets quite a few years for that. "His girl" will much better off without him.

[2naSalit]

11. Talk about toxic masculinity.

That's just fucked up.

[MerryBlooms]

12. No one should bail his sorry ass out, because if they do,

The girlfriend is next on his hit list. He will blame his arrest on her. If I were the girlfriend, I'd be highstepping it the hell outta there.

[pansypoo53219]

13. sorry, go chinese on this cretin.i'd send him to ukraine or china.

[DFW]

14. Smashing irreplaceable artifacts thousands of years old, and for what?

Give him the max. Let him take the full five years to think up another version of "fun."