Two men will be sentenced this summer for stealing a 17th-century bar of gold from a Key West museum.
Jarred Alexander Goldman of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, was found guilty Wednesday of conspiracy and theft of a major artwork.
That artwork was a bar of gold recovered from the 1622 wreck of a Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys. Valued at $556,000, it disappeared from the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum nearly a decade ago (!!) in 2010.
Authorities say Goldman stood guard while Steven Johnson of Rio Linda, California, lifted the bar from its display case.
The FBI recovered only a fragment of the original bar, sold by Johnson to a man who testified for the prosecution.
Johnson pleaded guilty in late April.
Sentencing for both men is July 23.