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NEW YORK — An Army helicopter pilot faces charges of selling stolen Egyptian antiquities dating to 3000 B.C., federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Chief Warrant Officer Edward George Johnson was arrested Tuesday in Alabama on charges of transportation of stolen property and wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said.
Johnson, 44, was stationed in Cairo in September 2002 when about 370 artifacts were stolen from the Ma’adi Museum near Cairo, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court. Johnson contacted an art dealer in January 2003 and offered to sell a collection of Egyptian antiquities, saying his grandfather acquired them while working in Egypt in the 1930s and 1940s, prosecutors said.
