We already knew that Mark Lugo, the sommelier who stole a $275,000 Picasso drawing from San Francisco's Weinstein Gallery, had good taste (he was a sommelier, after all). But the former Per Seemployee's predilection for art didn't just stop at the famed cubist. Police have raided Lugo's Hoboken, New Jersey apartment and found a stash of stolen art worth a staggering $500,000.  

The hoard reflects a wide-ranging and cosmopolitan sensibility, featuring prizes by '80s wunderkind Jean-Michel Basquiat, modern master Fernand Leger (represented by a piece worth $350,000), and Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara.And it appears that his San Francisco heist was not his first, but thatLugo — whose theft at the Weinstein Gallery was remarkable for its casual nature (leading us briefly to dub him the "sockless art thief") —was behind an impressive string of recent art crimes. 

"Police found a Richard Pugliese painting from the Harris Gallery, five small Mie Yimdrawings from the Chambers Hotel, a Yoshitomo Nara from the Opera Gallery, a Jean-Michel Basquiat photo from the Scot Foreman Gallery, theLeger sketch from the Carlyle Hotel, a Malick Sidibe photograph from the Jack Shainman Gallery and another Pablo Picasso sketch from the William Bennett Gallery," reports The Bay Citizen. "All of the works were reported stolen in a one-month period beginning June 6."

Given the size and strength of the stolen trove, it may well be that Lugo was out to enjoy his acquisitions rather than profit off of them: the New Jersey case detective said that "it looked like [Lugo] was putting on his own art show."

The San Francisco Chroniclenotes that Lugo and his lawyer were planning to plead not guilty in a court hearing scheduled for today. With the new evidence, that doesn't seem quite so likely. 

It wasn't just art that Lugo was amassing, either. Lugo is also "charged with stealing approximately $6,000 worth of wine from Gary's Wine and Marketplace in Wayne, N.J. in April," reports New Jersey Online. The wine in question? 3 bottles of 2006 Chateau Petrus Pomerol, which is valued at $2,000 a bottle. The charge carried a June 9 court date, which Lugo did not attend. Compulsive thief? New Yorker aspiring to the high life? We still don't know who Lugo really is. 

Update: The AP reports that Lugo, along with attorney Douglas Horngrad, has plead not guilty to the charges in New Jersey court. Superior Court Judge Samuel Feng has declined to reduce Lugo's $5 million bail because "the 30-year-old suspect posed a threat to public safety and local business owners." For reference, Dominique Strauss Kahn's recent bail was set at $1 million.