Two experts raise serious questions about the Dallas Museum of Art break-in
Until his retirement in 2016, John Barelli served as security chief at the renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He worked there for 38 years. He’s also the author of Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts.
Barelli is among the world’s leading authorities on museum security, so at the moment, he and his peers are fixated on one place:
Dallas.
“I know all about it,” he said of the June 1 break-in at the Dallas Museum of Art. “But at the Met, we never had a case quite like this.”
Sharing his concern is one of the world’s leading preservationists of rare fine art.
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Hernandez has been charged with criminal mischief of $300,000 or more, a first-degree felony. He seemed to seal his own fate when, amid the rampage, he picked up a phone and called 911, police said. When a dispatcher called back, museum security picked up and “stated that they did not call 911 and that there should not be anyone inside of the museum.”
He shattered the front entrance with a chair. Don't they have alarms? WTF?
