SF Chronicle: Hoboken Suspect To Plead 'Not Guilty' in Alleged Picasso Theft

Mark Lugo, , will plead "not guilty" to allegedly stealing a Pablo Picasso drawing from a San Francisco gallery, his lawyer told the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday.

The Chronicle reported that Lugo, 30, appeared in court in San Francisco on Monday, "his hands shackled and his face shaved clean of the beard he wore when police arrested him Wednesday night," the Chronicle wrote.

Lugo was arrested at a friend's house in Napa last week, where police found the drawing, the Chronicle reported. According to the same article, the Picasso was being sold for more than $200,000.  

The Chronicle on Tuesday quoted Lugo's lawyer, Douglas Horngrad, as saying: "Nobody is dead, nobody has been assaulted ... this is not the crime of the century."