Former State Assistant Attorney General William McCallum was recently arraigned for his alleged connection with the thefts of art from the College.
McCallum was arrested in July after a search of his Londonderry home turned up three works of art stolen from the College.
His trial will be scheduled for sometime this summer, according to Senior Assistant Attorney General Michael Ramsdell.
Upon a further search of the house, more works were also seized. According to Ramsdell, approximately two-thirds of the property seized from his home has now been identified as stolen.
Among the pieces found in McCallum's home were three prints of etchings by Piernase stolen from Carpenter Hall in March 1995. The 18th century Italian artist's works are valued at more than $1,000.
Hanover Police Detective Sergeant Frank Moran says a number of the others were later identified as stolen pieces from Yale University, Phillips Exeter Academy and Colby-Sawyer College.
Moran says McCallum is believed to have stolen the art himself. The case has now been turned over to Londonderry and Rockingham county officials.
McCallum pled not guilty to 71 charges of receiving stolen property. The counts range from misdemeanors to Class A and B felonies.
Class A felonies carry penalties up to 15 years in prison, Class B can result in seven years, and misdemeanors are punishable with up to one year in prison.
Following his arrest, McCallum was promptly fired from his post as a state prosecutor, and he is now being prosecuted by his former colleagues.
A computer stolen from the Thayer School of Engineering in 1995 was the first clue that led to a warrant for McCallum's arrest.
David Breed, a Lebanon resident, was helping McCallum's estranged wife Valerie Nevel move out of the couple's home last June when he noticed that the software on her Macintosh was registered to an unfamiliar name.
That revelation, coupled with Nevel's statements that her husband had acquired much of the art in their house "at a yard sale," was enough to prompt Breed to call Hanover Police.
"You just don't get that kind of stuff at yard sales," Breed previously told The Dartmouth.
When police arrived at the McCallum home with a warrant and examined the computer equipment, they also discovered the stolen works of art.
