He was at a party at the Franklin Institute when he sneaked away for selfies and ended up breaking a 2,000-year-old relic.
, 29, of Bear, Del., came more than five years after his prank at the museum’s 2017 ugly sweater Christmas party sparked an international incident with China, exposed Pennsylvania’s most popular museum to questions about its security failures and eventually landed Rohana at the center of a case that confounded the art world.
Despite that concession, Assistant U.S. Attorney K.T. Newton said after Monday’s proceedings that prosecutors still maintained Rohana had caused incalculable damage to a priceless artifact central to Chinese history. She explained the plea deal by saying the government was mindful of court time and resources while still satisfied that justice was being carried out in the case.
Rohana — dressed in a fuzzy green sweater and a Phillies cap — drove in with friends from Delaware for one such event, a holiday-themed party during which he stole away from the festivities to explore. But when FBI agents showed up at his home weeks later — after identifying him from that security footage — Rohana immediately confessed.
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