Article: LAPD'S ART THEFT UNIT HUNTS OUT GALLERY ROGUES; DETECTIVES DRAW ON WILES TO NAB ART THIEVES.(News)

Byline: Troy Anderson Daily News Staff Writer

Amid the guns, stolen stereos and bags of drugs that fill the LAPD evidence room is what appears to be a famous Renoir painting of a woman in a red dress.

It is not. Rather, it is a meticulous fake seized from a Los Angeles art dealer who tried to sell it for $350,000 to a Northridge collector.

``In a city the size of Los Angeles, there are 3.5 million suckers they can sell fraudulent art to,'' said Detective Don Hrycyk, one of two investigators in the Los Angeles Police Department's Art Theft Unit.

With Los Angeles' growing affluence and love affair with art, comes a regular rogue's ...

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