Bag Handlers at the Airport

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A Spirit Airlines passenger used her Apple Watch to track down her missing luggage, only to find it at the home of a Fort Lauderdaleairport retail worker.

Paola Garcia was waiting at Carousel 4 inside Terminal 4 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to collect her luggage; however, her hardshell pink suitcase never turned up on the conveyor belt, she told Local10.

“In my mind, I’m thinking I need my computer because I go to the university, I need my computer no matter what,” Garcia said. “I was waiting there at least two hours.”

The passenger told Spirit Airlines about her issue,. The airline said it would send her luggage to her address.


However, the next morning after her flight, she realized her Apple Watch packed inside her suitcase had started to send a signal not from the airport, but from a home in Fort Lauderdale.

What Garcia did not know at the time, was that her suitcase had been allegedly taken by 29-year-old Junior Bazile, who, in surveillance footage, was seen rummaging through the case in the back of an airport retail store he worked at, according to an arrest affidavit and pictures obtained by the outlet.

Bazile allegedly took various items out of the case and then placed Garcia’s suitcase in a clear plastic bag, the police report said.

Garcia told the local outlet that after she got the signal from her Apple Watch, she decided to go to the house herself because she had a “test that day” and needed her computer.

Once she arrived, she allegedly saw a number of suitcases all around the property and decided to call 911.

“The first thing the police told me was like, ‘What are you doing here? This is so dangerous for you to be here,’” Garcia said in the interview.

A detective from the Broward Sheriff’s Office then put the address of the house through an internal airport database and discovered that Bazile worked at a retail store inside the airport and was logged as working the day Garcia’s suitcase went missing.

Bazile was later arrested by police and charged with grand theft, the outlet reports.

Several days later, Bazile appeared in court for a status hearing on the charge. When asked by Local10 about allegedly stealing the items, he replied, “Go away.”

Spirit Airlines told the outlet that they have “issued a reimbursement check to the guest as a courtesy, even though we are not currently aware of any evidence that any Spirit employee was involved.”…….


https://www.independent.co.uk/trave...e-watch-florida-missing-luggage-b2556999.html
could missing bags be a part of an organized theft ring?
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.........Weinsier went to the house to ask about all the suitcases Garcia saw there and to talk to Bazile, but he wasn’t home.

Instead, Weinsier had a seven-minute-plus cordial conversation with his mother, who never asked him to leave and answered his questions.

“The police come in here and they don’t find nothing,” she said. “Nothing in my house. Nothing in my house.”

When told that at one point Garcia’s Apple watch was pinging from her house, she suddenly began to lash out, grabbing Weinsier’s station ID right off his neck and refusing to give it back.

She then started screaming for help and asking to be put on camera, which she already was, and struck Weinsier.

She then claimed that she was the one being hit.

Police officers were called and saw the entire interaction, which was all on camera.

Weinsier elected not to press charges for her physically assaulting him.

Several days later, Bazile was in court for a status hearing on the grand theft charge.............

A spokesperson for Paradies Shops, which is the company Bazile worked for inside the airport, released the following statement to Local 10 on Wednesday: “Paradies Lagardère takes this matter very seriously. Immediately upon learning of the incident, this employee was terminated. As this is an ongoing police matter, we have cooperated with the investigation and recommend reaching out to the Fort Lauderdale Police Department for more information.”

Is this part of a bigger ring?

“Personally, I don’t think it’s one person working in the airport, I think it’s a group,” said Garcia. “One person can’t just do that, take bags.”..........

https://www.local10.com/news/local/...-to-fll-workers-home-hes-now-facing-a-felony/