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Customs Agents Search A Bus Near Paris — And Discover A Stolen Degas Painting

The artwork was quietly spirited from a Marseille museum in 2009. The trail was cold until last week, when officers happened to check the luggage compartment of a bus.

In December 2009, a small painting by Edgar Degas was quietly stolen from the Cantini museum in Marseille, France. Museum staff discovered was missing when they arrived in the morning, and the prosecutor it could and there was no evidence of a break-in.

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