(Through his attorney, Allen declined to be interviewed.) He topped off his new living quarters with the last of his worldly belongings: a large-screen television, a DVD player, and a Sony PlayStation. In the early evening, they say they smoked some celebratory Kentucky Bluegrass weed they had stashed away for the occasion. He thought he was much better than everybody else, and he got to the point where he wasn't like us. In his talk, Spencer speaks to how he found a unique, unexpected sense of freedom and honesty in his art, not constrained by societal influences or monetary pressures. But after stewing in the magnitude of the potential dollar amount involved, and once convinced of the ease of the heist, the logic of the appraisal, and the legitimacy of Warrens Amsterdam connections, they say, he threw his lot in with the others. That was the point all along. He took a cab to Dam Square, an old hippie hangout in the center of the city he had read about on the Internet. and Lexington police put the pair under surveillance. The set was one of fewer than 200 produced. Now the hard partwe have to steal them. I was nervous. She offered to take his place. My son was born in January, so its been a busy time and I plan to take full advantage of the freedom I will have in Jamaica, Reinhard stated. I'm not going to lie. When they arrived on campus in the replacement G.T.A.V., they couldnt find a parking space anywhere near the library. Buried in the files was a series of e-mails to Christies in New York. Spencer drives me out to Lexington [Blue Grass Airport] on a Friday. But before long they were put to chase once again, this time by two local thugs. The meeting lasted no more than 15 minutes, but still, it was a turning point because the men explained to Warren a crucial step of selling rare books, stolen or otherwise: appraisal by a legitimate auction house. The others spent time in the library, too, taking notes on staff routines and viable escape routes. See, we have no choice now but to create something new, someplace else. Only by committing a felony could they ensure that they would never end up living back in the sterile, suburban world of the subdivisions. Near the boiler he also jerry-rigged a greenhouse for growing marijuana. Along the way a stoned Spencer read aloud from the purloined first edition of On the Origin of Species, particularly fascinated by the section on how the ears of domesticated animals have drooped over generations due to the disuse of the muscles of the ear from the animals not being much alarmed by danger.. At only $200 a month, the price was right, as Warren was broke after having shut down his and Spencer's fake-ID business and dropping out of U.K. for the semester to focus full-time on the heist. Warren and Eric got out of the G.T.A.V. In fact, wedged in their backpacks was nearly three-quarters of a million dollars' worth of books and manuscripts: an 1859 first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ($25,000), an illuminated manuscript from 1425 ($200,000), a set of the two-volume 15th-century horticultural masterpiece entitled Hortus Sanitatis ($450,000), 20 original Audubon pencil drawings ($50,000), and Audubon's A Synopsis of the Birds of North America ($10,000). Chas not only lived in the yellow bungalow but also was a part owner of it with his father, a prominent Lexington real-estate investor. When she asked for contact information, Spencer gave her his cell-phone number. The four men. Warren called me one night and he's like, We need to get together. When the four boys were arrested the news was met with disbelief, as none of them had been in any serious trouble before. Add to cart Category: Prints Additional information In the case of 67-year-old Alan Slattery of the U.K., it prevented a robbery from even happening. because she wanted a new Range Rover, like, what? Quote tagged! The phone number was registered to a Gary Reinhard of Lexington, Kentucky. The next morning, all nerves, he left for the meeting site, a caf within walking distance. Returning five minutes later with a rolling red suitcase in tow, Spencer opened it on the conference table. Lifting a technique straight from the film Reservoir Dogs, Warren assigned code names based on color. The minimum-security Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky, 125 miles from Lexington, houses approximately 1,200 inmates in multi-story cellblocks encircled by concentric layers of razor-topped fencing and fortified guard towers. Spencer, feeling increasingly disaffected with school life himself, readily accepted the offer. Spencer gives me 500 bucks, in my pocket. Far from being social outcasts, they had been popular athletes, and two were on some form of college scholarship. He also didn't have photos, photocopies, documentation, or even the slightest ability to intelligently discuss the books. In their senior year the two became local celebrities after a dramatic photo appeared in the Lexington Herald-Leader showing Lexington Catholic star goalkeeper Lipka and Tates Creek forward Reinhard battling midair during a playoff game. We can never go back if we wanted toI would rather have not been busted, but all I can say is it feels right in here, and before, in college, it just never did., I remember talking to Eric and Warren one day and I was like, So what, they're going to put us in jail, says Spencer. If you want to do something, you should figure out how you are going to do it. When Halloran inquired about them, Spencer spoke up and offered to fetch them from the car. Having told their parents that they were going on a ski trip to West Virginia, that weekend they loaded the loot into Eric's Ford Explorer and took off on the 12-hour drive to New York for their Christie's appointment. To have time to properly apply the disguises, he tried to reschedule his art-history final for later in the day on the 16th, but was unsuccessful. Several weeks before Spencer was approached by Warren about the fake-ID business, he had been on a freshman-orientation tour of Transy, including the library and its exceptional collection of rare books and manuscripts. When Halloran inquired about them, Spencer spoke up and offered to fetch them from the car. And Eric calls to him. In the fall of 2004, Warren Lipka moved into the unfinished basement. Thanks for the on my post. In between soccer practice, classes, painting, and studying, Spencer drew detailed sketches of the inside of the Special Collections Library and the adjacent Rare Book Room, making several appointments with the Special Collections librarian, Betty Jean Gooch, to scout the premises. All four were brought to Lexington police headquarters and individually interrogated by F.B.I. I was surprised he didnt.. ). (Big Warren declined to comment on the gambling accusations at the time.) Number one on that list was failure to create a business plan. They climbed onto dorm roofs, where they'd stake out the library for hours at a time, marking down the comings and goings of teachers, students, and security personnel. They stopped talking entirely and disbanded. Spencer, meanwhile, was short, wiry, distant, and in many ways Warrens opposite: an over-scheduled, over-achieving, diamond-tipped drill of a kid who excelled at whatever he set himself to. And then they came up with the issue of getting these appraised. Gicle print on Hahnemuhle Photo Paper (Matt 210gr) 2021 Limited edition of 25, all prints are signed and numbered. Spencer would communicate with Warren from a cell phone, which Warren would steal from a student in the morning. Despite the differing temperamentsand the disapproval of Spencers parentsthe two were best friends from the age of eight, a friendship that revolved largely around soccer. None the less, still super stoked Lex Art League accepted 3 of my artworks. Between studying for his first semester's finals, working out, and painting, Spencer made time to scope out the Special Collections section of the Transy library, reporting back to Warren weeks later that there was zero security other than an old lady librarian named B.J. In fact, they all tell me that as the planning picked up in the months before the heist, the three of them came to believe that it was their best and perhaps last chance to create a viable life for themselves after college. Because the boys pleaded guilty, many of the case's crucial details remain unknown even to law enforcement. With each taking one end of the Audubons, they made their way to the staff-only elevator. Wearing a heavy coat, gloves, and a wool cap, Beckman signed the visitors' log. Warren also ordered four stun guns over the Internet. They had reserved a room in the same Midtown Hilton that Spencer and Warren had stayed in nearly a year earlier. It was only a tennis final, Eric says, but that final that day was actually harder than I thought it was going to be. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. On the morning of December 17, 2004, Betty Jean Gooch, a librarian in the Special Collections Library at Transylvania University, in Lexington, Kentucky, was preparing for her 11 oclock appointment with Walter Beckman, a man she had never met. So I kind of go, That would be pretty crazy, wouldnt it? He said, Yeah, that would be kind of crazy. I then said, You know, why dont you look into it more and well go from there? Just like . It gave me an excellent opportunity to learn Spanish. Theyre one of Hollywoods brightest starsand most troubled actors. This is the story you didnt get from the film. I was kind of skeptical, continues Spencer, but the way I rationalized it was: it's the biggest auction house. Shift + Tab to replay. Seeing something in the wayward Warren, the preppy grifter pitched him the idea of selling fake Kentucky driver's licenses in the U.K. dorms. I get the call on the cell phone. See also Warren was already busily working out the problem, returning for advice to his underworld contact: What if we had some artwork that we wanted to sell? Warren remembers asking him. The truth is, but for one obvious, big mistakethe trip to Christiesthey probably would have gotten away with it, a Lexington police detective told me. By five P.M., Warrenas Beckmanwas back on the phone with Gooch explaining that he had missed his appointment because he had been out of town on business. and having to sign a fucking book. By hitting the ball back into Warrens court, Spencer thought he would keep that thrilling flicker of criminality burning for a bit longer, while fully expecting there to be an insurmountable obstacle somewhere down the road. That was the point all along. Spencer called himself Mr. Stephens. They said that this set, Birds of America, sold for $12 million. I said, Twelve million dollars, just sitting there? They were skeptical, Warren recalls. Each has a different style of facial hairmuttonchops (Lipka), a Fu Manchu (Borsuk), a Tom Selleck (Reinhard)which Lipka informs me they had carefully trimmed for my visit. and Lexington police put the pair under surveillance. As a child he drew and painted and his abilities led him to consider a career as an artist whilst at High School. Bam. All reinhard art prints ship within 48 hours and include a 30-day money-back guarantee. Spencer, meanwhile, was accepted to Transylvania on an arts scholarship, his sights firmly set on a career in graphic design. Two months later, amid a local media frenzy, the four formally pleaded guilty to all six federal charges, including theft of cultural artifacts from a public museum and interstate transportation of stolen property. He scored a joint before checking into a hole-in-the-wall and falling asleep. We figured, All right, well, now we just got what we thought would be impossible . At 11 the next morning, Chas slipped the G.T.A.V. It was hard for us. Artistically, it offered me the freedom to make the work I wanted to make without concern for my audience. Leave a message. A Google search of Spencer Reinhard brought up numerous hits for soccer in the Lexington area. There were all sorts of theories as to why they had done it: they were drug addicts; they had amassed large gambling debtsor Lipkas father had, and the boys did it to save the familys honor (the variant most popular with the local papers). The take could be more than $5 million. Eric dropped the books, and he and Warren made a run for it. believing that they had escaped with next to nothing. After a quick powwow in the stacks, the conspirators decided to abort the mission for the time being and retreated to the bungalow. Afterward, Warren and Spencer briefed the others, and the four went to lunch, where, the boys say, Chas insisted they spend another night in New York and attempt to see Mr. Leckey the next day. Meanwhile, Eric lined up the G.T.A.V. Before rendering her decision, the judge made preliminary findings that each of the boys was equally culpable, that the value of the books stolen would include only those physically removed from the building, and although Gooch suffered no bodily injury, the stun pen was in fact a dangerous weapon. He said his name was John. Like Barry, the men were immediately put off by Warren's youth, and even more so by the fact that he hadn't brought any of the books with him to Amsterdam. Twelve million dollars, just sitting there? In terms of the dollar amount involved and the extraordinary circumstances, the theft was one of the most significant in its history. We did the robbery as a way to escape, Eric says. [Warrens] like, Come on up, Eric remembers. All four, now 22, children of privilege, products of elite Lexington high schools, are serving seven-year sentences for their parts in the crime. Spencer gives me 500 bucks, in my pocket. Not what I expected, not what I wanted it to be, Warren says. They were skeptical, Warren recalls. Spencer assembled a small wardrobe of fake beards, gray wigs, and costume glue. In the weeks following the book heist, law enforcement followed leads at Transy and reviewed countless hours of security footage from the U.K. computer lab, to which a police technician had traced the e-mail from Walter Beckman to Gooch. In early February 2005, the F.B.I. Im expecting when I get up there its going to be taken care of and Im just going to start lifting books. Us three, we were much thicker than he was.) And what Chas likely didnt know was that, for Warren, Eric, and Spencer, the actual appraisal and sale of the stolen books had become irrelevant to the mission. The painting, in digital form, would become a popular screen saver on the F.B.I. American Animals brings to the silver screen the story of the Transy Book Heist of 2004, where four students tried to steal $12 million worth of arts and books from the Special Collections Library . And I pledged a fraternity, but I really didnt get into that too much. (The librarian who chased them out of the library did tell police the correct total of four thieves, even though she had seen only three.) Eric Borsuk, Spencer Reinhard, Charles 'Chas' Allen IIand Warren Lipka hatched a grand plan to steal rare books from their uni library Credit: KKYT. Buried in the files was a series of e-mails to Christie's in New York. I think we all knew that we wanted something different, and we had to break away from where we were living. detective says. Id heard about them before, but I didnt know anything about them. Im not going to lie. Im not going to lie. But after stewing in the magnitude of the potential dollar amount involved, and once convinced of the ease of the heist, the logic of the appraisal, and the legitimacy of Warren's Amsterdam connections, they say, he threw his lot in with the others. The two men followed the librarian into the Rare Book Room, and John closed the door behind them. We need to just get over this stuff, Eric tells me, explaining how Warren re-entered his life after their falling-out the previous semester. Warren and Chas left the other two and staggered to the nearby China Club, a tacky West Side nightclub, which they knew about from the famous Rick James episode of Chappelles Show. Choose your favorite reinhard art prints from 2,323 available designs. I was kind of skeptical, continues Spencer, but the way I rationalized it was: its the biggest auction house. They went back up in the elevator, accidentally stopping on the main floor, where they were spotted by another librarian. Meanwhile, Eric lined up the G.T.A.V. The painting is a kaleidoscope of images, including what appears to be a computer, a cell phone, a bong, the Transylvania library, and loose sheets of notepaper, floating above a desiccated one-eyed young man in a watch cap, kicking back on a beat-up couch with a blue dog on his lap. The contact, who identified himself only as Barry, stipulated that Warren had to bring $500 in good-faith money. Though she couldnt recall much else about her assailants, one odd detail stood out. . With each taking one end of the Audubons, they made their way to the staff-only elevator. Its great to be the inspiration for this project., Two weeks into his stay, Reinhard, an ardent ornithologist, whose works draw inspiration from late Dutch-American abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning, feels that his greatest artistic asset is his versatility. Like many aspiring art students Spencer believed that the academic community he was joining would inspire and enlighten him, exposing him to new experiences and methods. As far as they could see, there were only two ways out: either getting away with the crime or getting arrested for it. The reality however was rather more mundane, he sensed that his studies were little more than a continuation of his high school. The other two would wait around the block in the S.U.V. In a duffel bag by his bed an F.B.I. Among them was the 2002 photo from the Lexington Herald-Leader of Spencer and Warren playing soccer. Gooch agreed to reschedule for 11 the next morning. The story behind their motiveand how they got caught. Warren jumped at the opportunity and recruited another adrift freshman, his old high-school soccer teammate Eric Borsuk, as a partner. It didnt take long to tie in Eric and Chas. The reaction to the plan was generally positiveshortly after Thanksgiving, they moved forward. very unofficial.. Only cannabis-smoking goalkeeper Warren Lipka . Bam. In their senior year the two became local celebrities after a dramatic photo appeared in the Lexington Herald-Leader showing Lexington Catholic star goalkeeper Lipka and Tates Creek forward Reinhard battling midair during a playoff game. Frank Spencer Broker at Keller Williams Realty Published Feb 20, 2017 + Follow This past week we held a training outlining the 21 . Dressed for success in a tailored dark-blue suit his parents had bought for special occasions and future job interviews, Warren cultivated the young-conservative look, using a Windsor knot on his red tie and giving his wing tips a last-minute buff. It was very punishing, that first couple of months in college. Slattery was arrested and convicted of one successful and two attempted robberies. Spencer called himself Mr. Stephens. It was just funny because weve been in a lot of places that theyve been, Eric says. The meeting was scheduled for the next morning on the southern edge of Central Park near the Plaza Hotel. After researching auction houses online, Warren singled out Christies in New York. computers in the Lexington field office. Wedged in among the other houses on Beaumont Avenue, a quiet residential street near the U.K. campus, is a beaten-down yellow cinder-block bungalow, with two bedrooms on the second floor and two on the first. The fourth, Charles Chas Allen II, had been transferred to a federal medical center in Lexington.) The meeting ended after 30 minutes, and Ms. Halloran escorted the two out, assuring them that shed be in touch after conferring with her superiors on the best way forward. They all pled guilty to federal charges of robbery and. Spencer's life story and his practice are indelibly linked, thus the works he has created are a highly personal meditation on the journey Spencer Reinhard experienced. A witness had written down a license-plate number, but it was way off. In the morning, Warren says, he left two messages with Leckeys secretary and two more that afternoon. By one oclock that afternoon, the 227-year-old liberal-arts college was swarming with campus police, uniformed Lexington Police, plainclothes detectives, and forensic teams, as well as local news crews covering the developing Transy Book Heist, a crime that would one day be listed among the F.B.I.s all-time most significant art-theft cases. And thats when I came up.. . American painter Spencer Reinhard is loving the new art he is diligently producing. We werent, like, hardened criminals, so we kind of had to really put up a front. Warren deepens his voice: How ya doing? That kind of stuff. After an awkward back-and-forth, Warren finally handed the man the $500. A week later came a terse reply, telling Terry that, if he wanted to sell something, he was going to have to come in person to Amsterdam, as that is where I do business. Both Spencer and Warren were thrilleduntil they realized it would require traveling with a passport. And one thing led to another and we were just like, Lets put this behind us. And once we get past all of that, we started talking about this plan that he and Spencer have. Nothing panned out until mid-January, when, following a federal subpoena, Yahoo delivered all the data on its servers related to the walter.beckman@yahoo.com address. I get the call on the cell phone. His work and practice demonstrates not only the redemptive power of art but the struggle of all artists to articulate and convey their voice and message in an increasingly noisy and distracted world. Now we can't ever go back there. For footwear he went with clean white sneakers. We will be stronger, better, wiser for going through this together, the three of us. In fact, they all tell me that as the planning picked up in the months before the heist, the three of them came to believe that it was their best and perhaps last chance to create a viable life for themselves after college. I never intended to paint them and I resisted the idea but in the end I couldn't help but indulge the irony. A 20-man task force of Lexington police and F.B.I. The stun guns Warren had ordered never arrived, so he drove around town and returned with a Black Cobra Stun Pen, and had Spencer zap him and Eric to test its knockdown power. Waiting for the law to snatch them was nerve-racking, but they went on with their lives as if nothing had been amiss. [Beckman] said, B.J., a nickname her friends and colleagues used for her, she told officers. He said, You do that and you are free then to give them to us when you can. O.K., great. Spencer, feeling increasingly disaffected with school life himself, readily accepted the offer. Four students stole priceless books from Transylvania University. I guess when we did that she went upstairs to check on B.J.. Cops entered the basement, a dank pit reeking of marijuana, and found Warren sprawled out on a mattress. The books were much heavier than the boys had projected, and the pair could handle only three at a time. Oh, yeah, he almost got shot, says Eric, laughing. As far as they could see, there were only two ways out: either getting away with the crime or getting arrested for it. Warren was already busily working out the problem, returning for advice to his underworld contact: What if we had some artwork that we wanted to sell? Warren remembers asking him. onto nearby Fourth Street and careened through traffic before stopping a mile farther on, in front of a predominantly black housing project. 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