Daylight Robbery: Russian Police Detain Suspect After Bold Gallery Heist

Daylight Robbery: Russian Police Detain Suspect After Bold Gallery Heist
Russian police officers patrol on the Red Square in central Moscow on April 2, 2017, Vasily Maximov/AFP/Getty Images
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MOSCOW—Russian police said on Jan. 28 they had arrested a man caught on camera taking a painting off the wall of a major Moscow art gallery and strolling out with it under his arm.

Visitors at the State Tretyakov Gallery on Jan. 27 barely gave the man a second look, taking him for an employee.