DUO CHARGED WITH ART THEFT

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CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say two Chicago women were arrested after they tried to steal nearly $600,000 worth of art from a storage locker.

Sixty-one-year-old Michele Vasarhelyi and 31-year-old Vera Mamalat were ordered to be held June 22 on $125,000 bond for the Friday incident.

Assistant State’s Attorney Bonnie Greenstein says the two cut a lock on a storage unit and moved the art to a neighboring locker they rented.

A lawyer for one of the women says the locker belonged to an art dealer who was involved in a dispute with his client’s dead husband and father.

Both women have European citizenship.