Following a theft at the Oakland Museum of California‘s (OMCA) off-site storage facility earlier this month, the museum released a statement on Friday afternoon.

On October 15, around 3:30 a.m., a thief or group of thieves broke into the museum’s off-site storage facility, taking more than 1,000 objects. A number of additional details surrounding the case were initially withheld, so as not to impact the Oakland Police Department and the FBI’s Art Crime Team’s ongoing investigation. Now, with their approval, the museum has issued a statement on the events.

“Based on current findings, investigators believe this was a crime of opportunity, not a targeted theft,” OCMA’s statement reads. “There is no indication that the perpetrators specifically identified the facility as museum storage or sought particular artworks or artifacts. Instead, it appears they gained access and took items that were most easily available.”

The museum confirmed that the burglars took off with six Native American baskets, several 19th-century scrimshaw objects, a number of daguerreotypes, modernist metalw...