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A massive early-morning heist took place at a storage facility for the Oakland Museum of California.

Stolen items include Native American baskets, jewelry, laptops, historic photographs and intricately carved ivory tusks.

A thief or crew of thieves recently carried out one of the largest art heists in California history, breaking into a storage facility for the Oakland Museum of California under cover of darkness and making off with more than 1,000 precious artifacts.

Oakland police said the burglary took place just before 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 15, which is four days before robbers stole a trove of priceless Napoleonic jewels from the the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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