DALLAS — A man who broke into the Dallas Museum of Art on Wednesday night caused roughly $5.153 million in damage, destroying property including three ancient Greek objects before he was arrested, Dallas police said.
Brian Hernandez, 21, approached the museum’s glass entrance doors with a metal chair at about 9:40 p.m. Central time, and began destroying objects once inside, police said.
Hernandez broke into a glass display case and shattered a sixth-century B.C. Greek amphora — a type of ceramic vase — and a Greek pot from 450 B.C. The pieces together were valued at approximately $5 million, police said, based on information from the DMA’s security and operations director, Kenneth Bennett. They noted that estimates could change after a final assessment by a curator and the museum’s insurers.
