Parking Lot Handover
After years of legwork, Amore came to agree with Richard DesLauriers, chief of the FBI’s Boston office, that the stolen artwork had found its way into the possession of Robert Guarente, a Boston hood who resided in Maine, and that after Guarente developed cancer in 2001, he turned over at least three of the pieces to his friend Robert Gentile of Manchester, Connecticut.
In 2010, Amore and FBI agent Geoff Kelly were the first investigators to interview Guarente’s widow, who told them her husband had passed the stolen artwork to Gentile in the parking lot of a Portland, Maine, restaurant.
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With Kelly in the lead, Amore has participated in FBI searches of residences in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts in search of the missing artwork.