Do all thieves benefit from a stop theft class? As a counselor for both in-class and online stop theft classes, this is the question I posed to the students in one of my last classes. I posed this question both at the beginning and the end of the course.

One group of thieves that 100% thought could benefit from a stop theft class was art thieves. The relevancy you will in the following story. As reported in news.yahoo.com.

Did you know there was a major art heist from the Southern California home of financier Jeffrey Gundlach? So far six people have been charged with burglary and other offenses stemming from the caper.

Of course the six, including two arrested in September when the 13 stolen artworks were recovered, pleaded not guilty to charges of burglary, conspiracy, receiving stolen property and being an accessory after the fact.

The superstar bond-fund manager and CEO of DoubleLine Capital was away in New York when the paintings, along with pricey watches, bottles of fine wine and Gundlach's red Porsche sports car were taken from his Santa Monica home.

The overall value of the stolen property was put at $3.2 million. But the bulk of the massive heist consisted of rare, one-of-a-kind works by contemporary painter Jasper Johns, who won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, the late Dutch abstract artist Piet Mondrian and several other artists.

Most of the partings were recovered about two weeks later from an automobile stereo shop. Four of the thieves are related. It proves the apple does not fall far from the tree. I hope all are mandated at least 24-hour stop theft classes in addition to jail time.