Just days after a brazen burglary at the famed Louvre museum in Paris garnered international media attention, someone broke into a storage facility belonging to the Oakland Museum of California and made off with more than 1,000 items, police said Wednesday.

Oakland Police Department officials said they are working with the FBI’s Art Crime Team to investigate a burglary at the off-site storage facility that took place at about 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 15.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.