Yesterday, news reports say, FBI agents spent all day at the home of alleged mobster Robert Gentile, 75, who was arrested earlier this year on a federal drug charge and remains in prison, held without bail.
But while the agents used ground-penetrating radar device, two dogs and a ferret in their search, which they said was for weapons, Gentile’s attorney has been quoted as saying they’re really looking for the paintings stolen in March 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. “…we all know what they are actually looking for — and they are looking for the paintings,†A Ryan McGuigan, Gentile’s lawyer was quoted as saying in the Boston Globe. Â
The Gentile home in question is located in Manchester, Conn., and the U.S. Attorney’s office there declined to comment to the Globe.
A Reuters article said agent dug up Gentile’s yard:
The search did not unearth the renowned paintings and other artwork nabbed from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 18, 1990, a source familiar with the activities said. But FBI agents carried away boxes, apparently of possible evidence, from the house.
Gentile’s lawyer maintains that he has no connection with the Gardner theft, but his possible connection to the crime became public earlier this year, when a prosecutor disclosed in federal court in Connecticut that the government thinks he has information about it.
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