Marine veteran caught in web of lies as he 'fleeced $70K worth of first-class plane tickets for luxury trips'

Marine veteran and federal air marshal has been accused of scamming $70,000 worth of flights by faking military deployments.

Dior Jay-Jarett, 29, used his job as an airline baggage handler to snag 130 flights after claiming military leave, according to prosecutors.

jet first class to the likes of London, Las Vegas and Dublin, as well as travel standard class to Mexico and the Caribbean.

then bragged on Facebook about a trip to Cabo San Lucas at the airline's expense.

'Out of the 13 countries I have visited this year so far, this has been my favorite solo trip,'

Jay-Jarett finagled the flights and time off work by showing the airline fake deployment documents signed by a retired military official

The filing states that Jay-Jarrett conducted the scam between 2021 and 2024, first starting just a week after he completed his baggage handling training with the unnamed airline.

Jay-Jarett was on active duty with the US Marine Corps from December 2013 until November 2022, when he was medically retired at the rank of Staff Sergeant.

However, he failed to inform his employers about his retirement, prosecutors claim.

'By remaining on supposed long-term military leave at Airline-1, Jay-Jarett remained entitled to travel benefits including the ability to take unlimited, free flights on Airline-1

During his time with the airline, he also picked up work as as a Loss Prevention Lead at a sporting goods store and US air marshal while on military leave from his airline position.

'I believe Jay-Jarrett may have maintained an extended military leave at Retailer-1 in order to benefit from the store’s employee discount,' Special Agent Aaron Greenberg said.

'Because Jay-Jarrett continuously worked multiple, fulltime, and higher-paying jobs between 2021 and the present, I believe he never intended to actually begin work as a baggage handler at Airline-1.'

I lived in Yokosuka for a few years. Incredibly interesting as a dependent. My favorite story was when I was or nine years old. I didn’t have an ID card yet, so I couldn’t go off base by myself. But there was an old battleship, the Mikasa (a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War Battle of Tsushima) set up in concrete as as memorial. It was right on the water’s edge on the northern(I think) edge of the base.

Right where the fence came up, you could lift the fence and crawl under it, which is what I would do. Then, I would wander around off base, looking at all the strange things...plastic food...pachinco ball parlors...and the smell. It was the mixed smell of human waste, fish and car exhaust. Everything to me was completely alien, as if I had been dropped off on another planet.

To get back on the base, I would just walk in. The Marines guarding the gate would never ask you, because you were a kid and if you got off base, then you must have a card.

One afternoon (around 5:30 PM) when I was going back on base, they stopped me. They took me inside the guard shack and sat me in a metal chair. There were five of them, wearing the blue trousers with the red stripe, khaki shirt on top and the white cover. As I sat in the chair, they hovered menacingly around me, arms crossed. “How do we know you aren’t a spy”? they asked me. I said I wasn’t, and one of them said “Okay...who won the 1967 World Series?” My favorite player happened to be Lou Brock at the time, so I knew it was the Cardinals. It is funny to look back on now.

I wasn’t a spy, and I didn’t think at all that they thought so either...but they were awfully serious, and I thought they might simply be messing with me while waiting for the Shore Patrol and the Master at Arms to come down and pick me up...just having some fun. Now, I realize they fully knew who I was, because my dad was the head of security on the base at the time...:)

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