U.S. truck driver pleads guilty to stealing a Goya

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New Jersey truck driver pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing the Francisco de Goya painting "Children with a Cart" while it was in transit and then later attempting to claim a $50,000 reward.

Steven Lee Olson, 54, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to steal an object of cultural heritage, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark said. His accomplice, restaurant worker Roman Szurko, 27, has pleaded guilty to the same charge.

The men broke into a truck that was carrying the Spanish artist's 1778 painting from the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio, to the Guggenheim Museum in New York, prosecutors said. They later turned in the painting to claim the reward.

The painting had been insured for $1 million, prosecutors said. Both men face a maximum prison time of five years.

(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Daniel Trotta)