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SANTA FE, N.M., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- A security guard who reported burglaries at a Santa Fe art museum is facing charges he carried them out himself.
Museum of Fine Arts guard William Crumpton, 44, was arrested Thursday and charged with three felony counts of embezzlement -- one related a theft of a Georgia O'Keeffe painting and two stemming from recent burglaries at the nearby O'Keeffe Cafe -- and one count of criminal damage to property for allegedly damaging electrical security equipment at the museum, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported Friday.
He is being held on suspicion of stealing $14,000 from the museum and one of the O'Keeffe's 1919 paintings believed to be worth $500,000.
In addition to the charges filed Thursday, sources said police suspect Crumpton is behind the Dec. 16 museum heist and a Dec. 11 or Dec. 12 burglary of a safe in the Santa Fe County Treasurer's Office.
"Our officers were able to determine that the same man who called in the burglary report was actually the same individual involved in the incident," a police spokesman said.
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