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20-year art heist mystery solved in Connecticut?

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    Federal agents swarm alleged mobster's home

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The FBI score Robert gentiles.

This morning before eight -- brutal -- it's their second search on the property since February.

In the 75 year old reputed mobster was arrested on weapons charges seventeen years I've never seen anything like this.

But gentiles attorney says the federal warrant is a ruse and that drug and weapons charges have been orchestrated to obtain access to gentiles home in the search for something other than firearms -- first -- clearly didn't.

Get what they wanted to.

Which is certainly not firearms it's certainly the paintings from the -- museum.

Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was robbed in 1990.

500 million dollars worth of Rembrandt -- -- Vermeer painting stolen never recovered.

42 years later attorney -- -- -- that the feds believe it's in Manchester Connecticut -- they got ground penetrating.

The paint.

In the informally here investigators told the backyard -- radar equipment search the home and -- would bomb sniffing -- that gentiles like.

-- Republicans as firecrackers were found during February search classified in court as explosive.

Neighbors -- -- -- to believe.

And just so stunned because I'm -- professional artist and everybody in our world you know knows about that infamous.

-- -- hope they catch -- Michael -- You know I hope everything gets resolved we -- says his -- is being slapped with a tax charges have been held in solitary confinement being squeezed by the today -- -- -- -- Gentile is broken.

And the artwork that outsiders.

It is incorrect picture.

They're telling him that you're gonna die in jail mr.

give us more information and he has -- information.

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