The FBI has charged Terry Martin, 76, for allegedly stealing a pair of the ruby slippers worn by Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939). He’s accused of smashing a window at Minnesota’s Judy Garland Museum and absconding with the sneakers again in 2005. Now in FBI custody, they’re one in all 4 surviving pairs of the screen-worn slippers. The pair seen above is on show on the Smithsonian Nationwide Museum of American Historical past.
From the BBC Information:
They had been present in a sting operation launched by the FBI’s artwork crime group[…]
Charging paperwork launched on Tuesday contained no details about what led to Mr Martin’s arrest. On Wednesday, he instructed a reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune: “I gotta go on trial. I do not need to speak to you.”[…]
The treasured gadgets of Hollywood memorabilia have been valued at $3.5m (£2.8m), stated the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the District of North Dakota, including that they had been insured for $1m after they had been stolen almost 18 years in the past.
