Thefts of the Day

Today.

Burglars have pilfered artwork from a Southampton home owned by the widow of a former city political power broker and, in the French island of Corsica, a bizarre story unfolded early Saturday morning when a security guard, Antoine Mocellini, stole four artworks and held them for ransom, demanding that authorities provide him with a place to live. But when he led police to his car, where he said he had stashed the works of art, it had been broken into and the works had disappeared.