$300G in art stolen in ruse

Friday, August 07, 2009

Roughly $300,000 worth of framed artwork was stolen from a Jersey City warehouse yesterday when a man posing as the truck driver sent to pick up the containers simply drove away with the art pieces, reports said.

The heist took place at 12:50 a.m. at a warehouse at 400 Duncan Ave., reports said.

The impostor truck driver was asked to fill out paperwork at the warehouse and did so, reports said.

But when the California-based container company realized the artworks were missing and asked the warehouse to check the paperwork, workers there realized that what the thief wrote down was illegible, reports said.

KEN THORBOURNE