A. Four FBI offices, US attorneys in three states, two police departments and the Mexican government

"Federal investigators, in an unprecedented display of confidence that the most infamous art theft in history will soon be solved, said Monday that they know who is behind the Gardner Museum heist," the Boston Globe reported in....2013.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/03/18/feds-...

Speaking of wasting law enforcement resources

By roadman
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 6:09pm

This happened in March of 1990, 26 years ago. Doesn't theft usually come with a statute of limitations?

Thank God they weren't

By Rob
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 11:17pm

Thank God they weren't distracted by petty stuff like violent crime and potential threats to national security.

They got THE SHIRT back!!! Plus the other shirt he didn't even know he was missing. I can hardly wait for the Mark Wahlberg movie.

All crime should be ignored,

By Murphquake
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 2:33am

All crime should be ignored, because the most important crimes can't be solved.

Makes sense

no. not all crimes..

By Formerly-SoBo-Yuppie
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 8:36am

just "crimes" when a grown man's football jersey gets taken.

oh, and if the grown man is a proven cheat that is all the more reason to let the "crime" go.

oh, and if the grown man is a

By roadman
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 11:57am

oh, and if the grown man is a proven cheat that is all the more reason to let the "crime" go.

Alex, I'll take 'Disproven Claims' for $250

proven and suspended!

By Formerly-SoBo-Yuppie
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 2:50pm

pats first 3 superbolws = spygate
pats 4th super bowl = deflategate
pats 5th super bowl = firealarmgate (a well rested steelers team would have beaten the pats).

one of these days the cheatriots will win a super bowl with cheating...one of these days....

Let's see here

By roadman
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 6:19pm

Spygate - looking at opposing team in an OPEN and PUBLIC stadium. NO effect on outcome of game,

Deflategate - using slightly underinflated footballs because of laws of physics. NO effect on outcome of game

Firealarmgate (seriously?!?) - No relation to football games, or to pointless niggling NFL rules (ee spygate and deflate gate) - turned out to be drunken fan with NO connection to team, and had NO effect on outcome of game. Not to mention that Patriots endured similar late night hotel fire alarms when prepping for their previous Super Bowl - where were the cries that the opposing team cheated?

But I guess you'd better hurry up, the K-Mart blue light special on tinfoil ends in twenty minutes.

Not what I said at all.

By Rob
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 9:28am

Not what I said at all.

I was simply ridiculing the breadth and depth of resources brought into play in this case, especially from early on. Initially, it should have been a matter for the Houston Police and the Texas Rangers/State Police (assuming the stadium is some sort of state jurisdiction) alone, and they could bring in those other agencies/offices when a lead determined extra resources were needed (especially international).

...especially since, yes, this is a stolen shirt. That's it.

Yes - Brady, the Krafts, and the NFL/Hall of Fame each have their interests in getting it back. I'd just prefer the Feds to be concentrating on preventing/solving stuff that actually hurts defenseless people.

Besides - Brady really isn't that important or great.

Chuck Norris wouldn't have been down 19 points that late in the game in the first place.

Foreign journalists break into locker rooms to give Chuck Norris their shirts.

Chuck Norris wouldn't have

By roadman
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 11:59am

Chuck Norris wouldn't have been down 19 points that late in the game in the first place

Pro tip: Chuck Norris ISN'T a professional football player.

He is, however - Chuck Norris

By Rob
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 12:15pm

He is, however - Chuck Norris!

'nuff said

And?

By perruptor
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 3:33pm

Bruce Lee pounded him into the dirt.

The comeback was indeed great

By anon
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 12:44pm

The comeback was indeed great. So you Patriots haters keep hating. Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback ever. The patriots are Superbowl champs again. The fans are happy.

And the FBI was involved because it was an international crime, you know, beyond the reach of Houston PD and Texas Rangers.

Now carry on with your miserable lives. Maybe someday pilates will be a major sport and you can have your own heroes.

It's just another brick in

By anon
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 8:22am

It's just another brick in the wall.

Meanwhile, at Trump Tower...

By PegH
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 11:20am

Breaking this major case MUST be why the FBI can't figure out who was infiltrating the US elections -they obviously had much more important things to solve...

Meanwhile, at Trump Tower...

By PegH
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 11:21am

Breaking this major case MUST be why the FBI can't figure out who was infiltrating the US elections -they obviously had much more important things to solve...

Brady knew the first shirt

By anon
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 1:49pm

Brady knew the first shirt was missing. It wasn't reported so WE didn't know. But now that he has the shirts back, 10 to 1 he auctions them off to benefit a charity. What are you doing to better the world?

Rich Man Poor Man

By anon
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 11:27pm

Some poor kid riding the T or in school will have his Patriots Jersey stolen and no one will care.

The key difference is

By Waquiot
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 12:23am

That kid's jersey is worth, what, $75? TB12's jersey is valued at half a million.

Well maybe the poor anonymous

By Murphquake
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 2:37am

Well maybe the poor anonymous kid on the T, will use this experience to strengthen himself, much like the 199th draft pick in the 2000 NFL draft

Oh yeah, same thing

By Brighton-ite
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 7:25am

Because Tom Brady was a poor kid for sure.

poor kids

By Scumquistador
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 9:35am

arent wearing $75 jerseys either usually so im not sure what your point is

They might be

By anon
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 10:58am

If a relative gave it to them, they might have one.

Well maybe the poor anonymous

By Formerly-SoBo-Yuppie
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 9:48am

Well maybe the poor anonymous kid on the T, will use this experience to strengthen himself, much like the 199th draft pick in the 2000 NFL draft

Did you really just compare a kid getting mugged on the T with a grown man being drafted 'late' in the NFL?

Sigh....patriots fans.

Well

By Waquiot
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 11:44am

The grown man in question is sort of the topic of this post, and the legend has been that he has grown through athletic adversity (no actual adversity has ever been claimed, up to the whole thing with his mum being ill, which is why this jersey is more important to him than the one he lost 2 years ago.)

Tall Man Not-so-tall Man

By Refugee
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 9:20am

Poor Bob Kraft looks so tiny.

meanwhile, also in México

By anon
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 12:09am

The government can't find the time to give two cacas about the 43 missing students or the thousands of people disappeared since 2006, a wanted ex-governor who stole millions and under whose administration fake cancer treatments were given to children is still on the loose and just today yet another journalist was murdered, for which it is almost certain that no one actually responsible for it will ever see justice.. But hey, they put their top men on the missing sportsball shirt.

In Mexico, everyone is just super pleased with the attorney general's office.

Who's Tom Brady? One Of Those Troublesome Baseball Players?

By Elmer
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 12:39am

[sup]          ( so high-maintenance, so high-drama — what a nuisance! )[/sup]

No, No, No

By BostonDog
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 8:09am

He's the main character of the TV which is a spin-off of a popular 70's TV show about a large family. Here's a plot summery:

Time has not been good to Tom. Although close growing up, he's now estranged from his siblings as a result of a prolonged estate lawsuit following his father's death and the sudden death of two of his step-sisters. Tom works as an accountant, or at least tried to work as one as his alcoholism has cost him several jobs. His marriage ended years ago and he contemplates suicide.

I'm not surprised you haven't heard of the show. It's pretty depressing.

I've Heard Of Carol Brady

By Elmer
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 6:48pm

[youtube]X6t0HS2AoSc[/youtube]
[sup]    ( though sadly, Flo is no longer with us, her cheerful singing about chicken endures! )[/sup]

Yea I would hate to pay taxes

By Murphquake
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 2:26am

Yea I would hate to pay taxes to our government for assisting me in collecting items stolen from me and brought out of our country.

I didn't vote for Trump, but you are too salty that he lost...

Let's see...

By perruptor
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 5:43am

All the people who are talking about Trump in this thread . . .
Guess what? It's only you, chum. Maybe you're the one who's overly Trumped-up here.

OTOH, if we already had The Wall

By roadman
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 11:31am

perhaps the shirt thief wouldn't have been able to leave the country.

Now if only the FBI could

By tofu
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 8:34am

Now if only the FBI could help my wife track down a couple of my socks.

Yea, yea, highly-valued item. Still, a sweat-soaked jersey that shouldn't be worth that much.

A. Four FBI offices, US attorneys in three states, two police departments and the Mexican government

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