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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 28 February 2018
Mobster linked to art heist sentenced in gun case

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — the 1950s, had been con-
A mobster who authorities victed of several charges,
believe is the last surviving including selling a loaded
person of interest in the handgun to a convicted
largest art heist in history murderer who was coop-
has been sentenced to 4 erating with the FBI and il-
½ years in prison in an unre- legally possessing firearms
lated weapons case. as a felon. He has been in
Robert Gentile, 81, was sen- prison awaiting sentencing
tenced Tuesday in federal for almost three years.
court in Hartford, Connecti- Federal agents found the
cut. He was given credit guns that led to the weap-
for time already served, ons charge while search-
and is expected to spend ing Gentile's home in what
about 11 more months be- defense attorney A. Ryan
hind bars. Federal prosecu- McGuigan has said were
tors have said they believe attempts to find some of
Gentile has information the stolen paintings, or evi-
about the still-unsolved dence connected to the
1990 heist at the Isabella Robert Gentile, 81, arrives at federal court in Hartford, Conn., on heist. In 2013, Gentile was
Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018.
Stewart Gardner Museum (Patrick Raycraft/Hartford Courant via AP) sentenced to 2½ years in
in Boston. Thieves stole prison in another weap-
an estimated $500 million denied knowing anything stint in prison as horrifying. ons and prescription drugs
worth of artwork, including about it. He asked the "Anybody else would have case that first revealed fed-
works by Rembrandt and judge Tuesday to consider killed themselves," he said. eral authorities' belief that
Johannes Vermeer. Gen- letting him go home to his Gentile, who has a crimi- he knew something about
tile, of Manchester, has wife, describing his latest nal record that dates to the heist.q

Court releases more search warrants in Vegas attack

By KEN RITTER from his room in a high- FBI spokeswoman Sandra releasing any new informa-
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The FBI rise hotel on the Las Vegas Breault declined Tuesday tion about the case, Officer
searched email and social Strip, killing 58 people and to comment about the Laura Meltzer said. Danley
media accounts of the injuring hundreds more at documents in what she was in the Philippines at the
gunman who carried out an open-air concert be- called an ongoing investi- time of the shooting and
the deadliest mass shoot- low. Paddock then killed gation. has not been charged with
ing in modern U.S. history, himself. Las Vegas police were not a crime.q
but court documents re-
leased Tuesday provided
little new insight about the
investigation in Las Vegas.
Among more than 500
pages of search warrants
are hand-written notes
saying whether investiga-
tors received information
about online accounts be-
longing to Stephen Pad-
dock and his girlfriend,
Marilou Danley. The newly
released documents didn't
describe what the emails
or social media revealed
or what investigators may
have learned from a Fitbit
device, USB drive, com-
pact disc and four note-
pads seized in an Oct. 22
search of Paddock's home
in Mesquite, Nevada.They
also didn't provide clues
on a motive for the Oct. 1
shooting. The documents
were unsealed by a federal
judge at the request of me-
dia organizations, including
The Associated Press.
Authorities say the high-
stakes gambler amassed
an arsenal of assault-style
weapons and opened fire