He turned “cat burglar” right into a job description.
A 52‑12 months‑outdated man has been charged after an Egyptian cat sculpture and “priceless” artifacts have been stolen from an Australian historical past museum, Queensland police mentioned Sunday.
The suspect is accused of smashing a window on the Abbey Museum of Artwork and Archaeology in Caboolture, north of Brisbane, within the early hours of Friday morning, earlier than making off with the traditional haul.
Authorities shortly recovered the stolen treasures, together with the two,600-year-old wood feline, a 3,300-year-old necklace, a mummy masks and a collar from a mummy.
All of the stolen gadgets have now been recovered with solely minor harm after looking out a camper van, police mentioned, with a lot of the artifacts nonetheless intact.
Police situated the car in a parking zone at a ferry terminal at round 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, roughly 50 miles from the museum, following a two-day search.
The suspect, who has no fastened tackle, was allegedly present in possession of the ultimate lacking merchandise — the wood cat sculpture. He was arrested on Russell Island, a small island off the coast of Queensland, hours later and has been charged with breaking and getting into, together with three counts of willful harm.
He is because of seem in Cleveland Magistrates Court docket on Monday.
The heist wasn’t fairly as film‑made as the Louvre heist in October 2025, when 4 masked thieves pulled off a daylight theft in simply seven minutes, smashing show circumstances to steal eight items of France’s historic crown jewels.
France’s Ministry of Tradition confirmed the jewels stolen included a necklace and a pair of earrings from the Marie-Louise assortment; a necklace, earrings and a tiara from the Queen Marie-Amélie and Queen Hortense assortment; and a brooch, bodice bow and a tiara from the gathering of Empress Eugénie.
The stolen jewels are price an estimated $102 million, and the bulk weren’t recovered.
