Hermitage Theft: This Just In

Alexander Shedrinsky, calling me from the International Program office of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, told me that he just heard, from one of his many curatorial contacts at the Hermitage, this important new development in connection with the Russian museum’s theft case:
An anonymous caller to a police station said today that he had bought a Russian icon in good faith a few years ago, but he now suspected it might be one of the objects missing from the Hermitage. He said he was leaving it in a garbage can. The icon, in which precious stones were incorporated, was found, carefully wrapped, and was taken to the Hermitage for examination.
A break in the case?