News – Artwork and Delivery Driver Disappear – US

A six foot nine ex-con with a suspended driver’s license has disappeared along with seven Milton Avery works. The paintings, said to be worth around $1.5 million, were on their way to the Avery estate in New York following an exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum. You’ve got to wonder how Patrick McIntosh was hired for the job of delivering the works. What, without a license and a little theft record going on, there were, surely, more likely choices for the trip to New York. Nonetheless, he got the post, yet somehow, never quite managed to reach the destination. With that kind of audacity, you almost want him to get away with it. However, McIntosh also legged it with his fiancé’s (assumedly now ex-fiancé) jewelry, a pretty lowly crime to say the least – after all, surely a diamond ring would be pennies next to a couple of major artworks. Still, never mind eh, a 6’9’ man driving a budget van full of Avery’s shouldn’t be too hard to miss.