Wine Steward Admits to New York Art Theft A wine steward who plucked artworks off hotel and gallery walls on both coasts admitted on Tuesday that he had stolen a $350,000 drawing in New York, resolving the charges against him in the city after serving his jail time in California. The thief, Mark Lugo, who decorated his apartment with the artworks, pleaded guilty in State Supreme Court in Manhattan to grand larceny, prosecutors said. He acknowledged taking the drawing, a sketch by the Cubist painter Fernand Léger, from a gallery in the lobby area of the Carlyle Hotel in June 2011. It was one of several New York thefts that prosecutors said Mr. Lugo had accomplished by lifting artworks off the walls and walking away with them hidden in a canvas tote bag. Besides the Léger, called "Composition With Mechanical Elements," he had been charged with stealing five works by the South Korean artist Mie Yim from another hotel on June 14. Mr. Lugo, 31, is set to be sentenced on Feb. 28 to one to three years in prison. His lawyer, James Montgomery, said that Mr. Lugo could be released in less than a year if he completes a prison program. Mr. Lugo was publicly identified as a suspect in several New York thefts shortly after his arrest in San Francisco in July. At Mr. Lugo's apartment in Hoboken, N.J., investigators found a $430,000 trove of stolen art. In New Jersey, Mr. Lugo, a sometime sommelier and kitchen server at upscale Manhattan restaurants, is charged with taking three bottles of Château Petrus Pomerol, together worth $6,000, from a wine shop in Wayne. Mr. Lugo pleaded guilty in October to grand theft in the California case. He finished his 138-day sentence on Nov. 21. Mr. Montgomery declined to comment further on Tuesday. He has previously said Mr. Lugo "had no commercial motive at all" in his actions. Mr. Lugo's lawyer in San Francisco, Douglas Horngrad, has called him "more like someone who was in the midst of a psychiatric episode" than a calculating art thief.