6 sentences with “stolen”

Norway's most famous masterpiece had been stolen and the police had no clues.

Sergio Madriz Soto, 26, was slowly driving a stolen silver Toyota on the east side of San Jose, California.

Taken from a sheriff's report of a headstone stolen from a cemetery grave: "The owner has moved out of our jurisdiction, but we will contact him.

We learned that he was convicted of treason, for seeking political asylum while abroad, and for planning to reveal how the Soviet Union had stolen technological and commercial information.

The famous character in The Scream, cowering in fear under a blood-coloured sky, perfectly expressed the feelings of Norwegians, for on the morning of the day the painting was stolen, 12 February 1994, the Winter Olympics were due to open in nearby Lillehammer and everyone's eyes were on their country.

In the following days, the National Gallery and the police received several phone calls from supposed intermediaries claiming to be able to recover the stolen painting. They all turned out to be fiascos. For Leif Lier, deputy chief of police in charge of crime investigation in Oslo, this was very frustrating.