BOSTON -- A Hollywood screenwriter was questioned Friday by a federal grand jury probing a record art theft at the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston three years ago.
Lawyers for Brian McDevitt, 32, insist he is not a suspect in the $200 million heist at the museum on March 18, 1990.
McDevitt, a former Swampscott, Mass., resident now living in Los Angeles, was convicted for the December 1980 bungled theft attempt at an art museum in Glens Falls, N.Y.
McDevitt and another man were arrested after the Federal Express van they hijacked got stuck in traffic en route to the museum.
Officials said McDevitt was questioned by the grand jury because of similarities between the upstate New York attempt and the Boston heist.
The Gardner theft, which remains unsolved, is the largest art robbery in U.S. history. Two men posing as Boston police officers tricked museum guards into letting them in, and then handcuffed the guards.
The thieves made off with a dozen valuable paintings and drawings. None of the stolen pieces have been recovered.
