Pebble Beach Art Theft Soap Opera Continues

Another chapter has been added by northern California media to the strange tale of Dr. Ralph Kennaugh and Angelo Benjamin Armadio (pictured l to r), who reported the robbery last fall from their rented Pebble Beach home of 13 paintings worth $27 million. Just a fraction of the artwork by Jackson Pollock, Matisse, Rembrandt, Renoirand others was insured.

A Superior Court judge has dismissed the pair’s defamation lawsuit against the Monterey County Sheriff’s department. This despite the plaintiffs’ accusation that a deeper set of motives was behind the labeling by cops of the September 25th, 2009 robbery report as a “hoax.”

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