Posted on 06/05/2024 2:48:32 PM PDT by lowbridge
A Spirit Airlines passenger managed to track down her stolen luggage after it vanished when she arrived at a Florida airport — using one of the stolen items to aid in her desperate search.
Paola Garcia had been waiting for her small pink hardshell luggage, containing several Apple products like her personal MacBook and two Apple Watches, at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport’s carousel after returning home to the Sunshine State, Local 10 reported.
The exact timing of the incident remains unclear, but Garcia’s desperation to find her stolen property led her to the apparent culprit’s house even before local cops.
Garcia told the outlet she always carried on her luggage without issue, but this time, Spirit Airlines employees made her check the bag before she departed from New York.
She panicked as she watched others grab their bags from the carousel, and her luggage didn’t appear.
“In my mind, I’m thinking I need my computer because I go to the university, I need my computer no matter what,” Garcia told the outlet.
Garcia said she waited “at least two hours” before giving up hope that her luggage would arrive on the conveyor belt.
Spirit Airlines employees told Garcia not to worry and that her luggage would be sent to her house, she told the outlet.
The next day, she began receiving a ping from one of her Apple Watches — except it wasn’t coming from the airport but 15 minutes away at a Fort Lauderdale home.
It was the home of Junior Bazile, who worked in the retail store Paradies Shops at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Local 10.
Determined to get her belongings back, she went to the home, found her suitcase and her things, and immediately called 911.
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(Junior Bazile)
Love the dude’s picture
DEI hire...it’s them again Yogi...
No need to look at the mugshot.
OK, so she wen’t to Junior’s home and what, he just let her in to look around at his collection of luggage?
Is it that same guy in the Biden administration?
Always place an apple airtag in any lugguge.
Alass...it isn't.
I love living in Venezuela del Norte
It so much better and more exciting than the boring, diversity-free, lily-white, high-trust place that I grew up in
Is there an android counterpart?
It’s worth hiding counterfeit money in your luggage so a thief gets some serious jail time when they spend it.
Garcia ended up at the residence of 29-year-old Junior Bazile, who worked at Paradies Shops, a retail store at the airport. At the home, Garcia told WPLG that she noticed several suitcases all over the area and began taking video before calling 911.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office discovered that Bazile had been working the day Garcia’s luggage disappeared. An investigation turned up images of Bazile rummaging through Garcia’s luggage in the back of the store where he was employed.
Bazile was arrested and charged with grand theft, which is a felony offense in Florida if the stolen items are valued over $750, per The Post.
People really should give paybacks in bills that can’t be cashed.
Stupid to put valuable items in checked luggage. How can she not figure that out?
Unfortunately not. But it’s definitely a resume enhancer should he choose to apply.
Do I REALLY need to look??
Pretty sure you can use Apple airtags with android. There is another brand...can’t remember the name. Flew to France for World Benchrest Championship last year...several of the guys used airtags to track their rifles. I’m going to start doing that with all of my luggage...if I ever fly commercial again.
“Stupid to put valuable items in checked luggage. How can she not figure that out?”
you SHOULD have read the article before making an ignorant comment like that: Spirit Airlines MADE her check her bag that heretofore had always been checked onboard ...
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