Police in Queensland, Australia, have arrested a person suspected of stealing valuable Egyptian artifacts from a museum exterior of Brisbane.
In keeping with native experiences, the 52-year-old man was arrested Saturday on Russell Island in Moreton Bay after police found a part of the stolen haul in a camper van parked at a ferry terminal. Among the many recovered gadgets was a 2,600-year-old wood cat determine from Egypt’s twenty sixth Dynasty, the final dynasty dominated by a local Egyptian pharaoh earlier than the Persian conquest.
Police apprehended the suspect inside two days and returned a lot of the artifacts to the Abbey Museum of Artwork and Archaeology in Caboolture. Authorities stated he entered by means of a smashed window dealing with its historical Egyptian exhibition on Friday in what investigators described as a brazen break-in reminiscent of the 2025 Louvre heist.
The artifacts stolen in Caboolture additionally included a 3,300-year-old necklace and a mummy masks, later found contained in the camper wrapped in a Venezuelan flag. Each objects have since been recovered and seem to have suffered solely minor injury.
Police arrested the suspect Sunday and charged him with breaking and getting into, in addition to three counts of willful injury.
