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Spirit Airlines flyer tracks down her stolen luggage to airport employee’s Florida house with her pinging Apple Watch
nypost.com ^ | June 5, 2024 | Richard Pollina

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: airlines; applewatch; crime; donate2freerepublic; florida; floridaairport; ftlauuderdale; getbackontopic; heyyogi; juniorbazile; luggage; macbook; paradiesshops; spiritairlines; theft; travel
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To: zzeeman

A sunny 100° today! No rain in sight, but the monsoons will be here around my anniversary (August 5) or 30 days before and after. But I’m good, for now. At times, I just go stand in the heat.


361 posted on 06/20/2024 6:51:16 AM PDT by Monkey Face ( ~~ If the meek are going to inherit the earth, they need to be more aggressive about it. ~~)
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To: Monkey Face

They were not dead, and I only needed to threaten to sing.


362 posted on 06/20/2024 7:13:04 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Tax-chick

LOL!

I’m sorting pills under the newly installed kitchen light! What a bonus! Too bad I had to wait so long.

Nate, the fireman/handyman had to crawl under one of the quad buildings yesterday to fix a water leak. There is only one way to enter and that’s on one end of the building. The leak was on the far end, so he wasn’t having too much fun down there. His fear was snakes. Mine would have been the confined space.

As a fireman, he works “48s” so he’s only available every two days. He made me laugh yesterday. “I like your veins!”


363 posted on 06/20/2024 8:40:51 AM PDT by Monkey Face ( ~~ If the meek are going to inherit the earth, they need to be more aggressive about it. ~~)
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To: Monkey Face

Sounds wonderful!

👍🏻


364 posted on 06/20/2024 9:01:59 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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****Bubbles****


365 posted on 06/20/2024 11:41:46 AM PDT by moose07 (Reconfigured for easier operation. Ah-sheesh.)
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To: moose07

Hiya, Moosie!!

How’s things in Old Blighty?


366 posted on 06/20/2024 11:54:11 AM PDT by Monkey Face ( ~~ If the meek are going to inherit the earth, they need to be more aggressive about it. ~~)
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To: Monkey Face; moose07

It sounded like he might have been FReeping from under water.


367 posted on 06/20/2024 12:16:41 PM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: moose07

Hello! Happy Solstice! Watch out for murders!


368 posted on 06/20/2024 12:30:58 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face; ArGee

Happy solstice to you all.
Freeping from underwater has its advantages.
We have elections next month. Deciding between clowns is difficult.
If you don’t elect TheDonald (tm) , can we have him. Lend lease kind of arrangement.

Summer has arrived. Between rain showers.


369 posted on 06/20/2024 6:22:00 PM PDT by moose07 (Reconfigured for easier operation. Ah-sheesh.)
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To: moose07; MayflowerMadam; dakine; GOPJ; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Tax-chick; ...

It's dangerous out there. Take this!

370 posted on 06/21/2024 1:19:06 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face; NicknamedBob; null and void; no-to-illegals; Silentgypsy; ColdOne; ...

Good morning. Happy Friday!

It’s dangerous out there, and it’s hot. I don’t know about the other side of the pond, but summer here is foreguessed to hit 95 fs before the day is done. And this is one of the cooler parts of the heat wave. The Princess is asking to be shaved.

Yesterday was a very quiet day. It may take a long time to get anywhere from here (grocery store, restaurant, gas station), but I can’t complain about the quiet of the wildlands. But we’ll leave tomorrow. B-I-L can’t stay forever.

Back to rather ordinary Wordling. Hmmm... Wordling almost sounds like an obscure fishing method, like the one where people try to catch catfish with their hands.

Wordle 1,098 4/6*

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371 posted on 06/21/2024 4:42:40 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: Tax-chick

As dangerous as it is, we need one for each hand!

Good morning. I hope you had a good night!

I finally made it. I don’t know why I was so tired last night, but if it hadn’t been for FS sending me a text saying Donald Sutherland had passed away, I’d probably still be sleeping. Sad news, that. He was a fine actor.

FS and PW are still on the road. They were in Birmingham, AL, yesterday, and I’m sure he’ll keep me posted as to his stops, as usual. I’ll have to wait until he calls before I find out any more about his trip.

I asked him for magnets, but he thought it was ridiculous that I wanted a magnet for a place I’d never been. He may get them, but he may not.

Nothing planned today, I don’t think. I’ll get up from here in a bit and take a shower. Maybe I’ll get some card written. I have to buy some new ones because I’m very low on notecards!


372 posted on 06/21/2024 6:09:58 AM PDT by Monkey Face ( ~~ If the meek are going to inherit the earth, they need to be more aggressive about it. ~~)
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To: moose07

We’d miss The Donald, but I think your need is almost as severe as ours!

It’s good to be back in the high desert!


373 posted on 06/21/2024 6:18:10 AM PDT by Monkey Face ( ~~ If the meek are going to inherit the earth, they need to be more aggressive about it. ~~)
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To: Monkey Face; moose07

I’ll miss “The Donald”, especially as Hawkeye. But I don’t think I’d call it a sever need.


374 posted on 06/21/2024 9:52:55 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: ArGee

Funny boy!

But thanks! I needed that!


375 posted on 06/21/2024 10:01:31 AM PDT by Monkey Face ( ~~ If the meek are going to inherit the earth, they need to be more aggressive about it. ~~)
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To: Monkey Face

376 posted on 06/21/2024 11:24:59 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: ArGee

I would have liked him in that if I had seen the original B&W first!


377 posted on 06/21/2024 11:29:13 AM PDT by Monkey Face ( ~~ If the meek are going to inherit the earth, they need to be more aggressive about it. ~~)
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To: Monkey Face

Sally got me a stingray magnet from the Tennessee Aquarium. Also an octopus sticker. Just get your mom a tchotchke already!


378 posted on 06/21/2024 11:52:38 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Tax-chick
They sell magnets of these at the aquarium?


379 posted on 06/21/2024 1:50:33 PM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: Tax-chick

Good for Sally!

Yeah, that’s what I told him. “I can’t go there so the next best thing is to have someone who IS going there get me a magnet!!”

Silly boy!

I mailed a card today.


380 posted on 06/21/2024 2:06:31 PM PDT by Monkey Face ( ~~ If the meek are going to inherit the earth, they need to be more aggressive about it. ~~)
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