Hoboken Police Recover Stolen Artwork from Hobokenite's Apartment

More than $500,000 in stolen artwork was found Tuesday in the Hoboken apartment of a man accused of stealing a Picasso sketch from a San Francisco gallery, police said.

Mark Lugo, 30, is currently being  for  drawing from a gallery there.

Hoboken detectives were contacted by the New York City Police Department’s Major Case Squad on Tuesday, regarding the theft of a Picasso painting from a hotel in Manhattan, according to Hoboken Police. The paintings were hanging on the walls of Lugo's Washington Street apartment.

The value of that painting from the Manhattan gallery, police said, is approximately $350,000. The Major Case Squad was informed by San Francisco detectives that the stolen painting may be at Lugo’s Washington Street residence, police said.

Officers got into the apartment by forced entry around 2:20 a.m. on Tuesday, police said.

"The paintings were hanging on the walls and laying about the apartment," police said in a press release.

Hoboken Police, members of the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office and officers from the New York Police Department assisted with the raid.