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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: lowbridge

First offense for personal property thieves: Lose 2 fingers.
Second offense: Lose non dominate hand.
Third offense: Life in prison without the possibility of parole.


21 posted on 06/05/2024 3:24:04 PM PDT by Boomer (If the Nazi-Rats and Rinos win, everyone loses. The Uniparty can no longer claim they are American.)
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To: Boomer

Sharia. Nice.


22 posted on 06/05/2024 3:25:55 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Stevenfo

“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.”


23 posted on 06/05/2024 3:26:09 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: catnipman

Commenting without reading the article, or even the excerpt, is a long tradition going back to the earliest days of FreeRepublic. Probably second only to clicking [I have already previewed...] without actually proof reading.


24 posted on 06/05/2024 3:31:35 PM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: lowbridge

Haitian trash. His mother assaulted a reporter who went to the house and stole his ID.


25 posted on 06/05/2024 3:45:02 PM PDT by utax
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To: broken_clock

Ah that’s the spirit!


26 posted on 06/05/2024 4:09:03 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Boomer

I’d like to add an addendum, in addition to your sentences.
First offense: add 15 minutes restrained, in a room with the victim.
Second offense: 30 minutes restrained, in a room with the victim with a baseball bat
Third offense:Choice of burial or cremation.


27 posted on 06/05/2024 4:09:30 PM PDT by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: Stevenfo

Yes, but she had traveled with that same small bag before and never had to check it. This time Spirit required her to check it and the thieving black employee stole it. You can be sure he’s done this dozens of times before. Unless it’s sent to the wrong airport, missing luggage and personal belongings are usually stolen by airline employees or TSA agents.


28 posted on 06/05/2024 4:17:03 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: moovova

That’s the stuff of nightmares right there.


29 posted on 06/05/2024 4:17:24 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Fungi
Is there an android counterpart?
If you have a Google watch:
https://support.google.com/wearos/answer/9377785?hl=en

How to locate your Samsung Galaxy devices

How to find a lost Chromebook

Find and lock a lost Windows device

30 posted on 06/05/2024 4:20:15 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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To: lowbridge

If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.
If it’s Spirit, I will fear it.
✈️

(Best I can do.)


31 posted on 06/05/2024 4:23:16 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Stevenfo

Exactly. It’s no different than wearing cutoff jeans, or a tank top. That bitch was asking to be raped!


32 posted on 06/05/2024 4:24:40 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Farmerbob; catnipman

> Commenting without reading the article, or even the excerpt, is a long tradition going back to the earliest days of FreeRepublic.<

Correct, Farmerbob. We must respect tradition! And for newbies, here’s the whole picture:

- Here less than 1 year: You really shouldn’t comment. You’re a newbie.
- Here 1 to 5 years: Please read the entire article before commenting.

- Here 5 to 10 years: Read the excerpt before commenting. Don’t worry about the rest of the article.
- Here 10+ years: Just take a quick glance at the headline. Then say whatever comes to mind. Your comments don’t even have to apply to the article.


33 posted on 06/05/2024 4:27:44 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: xoxox

He seems surprised about something.


34 posted on 06/05/2024 4:28:20 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: moovova
Must...have...eye bleach.

No, actually...need mind bleach.🥴🤢🤮

35 posted on 06/05/2024 4:28:41 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual. )
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To: Leaning Right

Tacos can be delicious.


36 posted on 06/05/2024 4:28:45 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: lowbridge
Oh, I knew it without looking...


37 posted on 06/05/2024 4:29:13 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Stevenfo

was told to check it


38 posted on 06/05/2024 4:30:00 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: 6ppc

Are they expensive, hard to use, effective, easy for the perp to locate? Battery lasts a long time?

Talk to me like I’m 5 …LOL


39 posted on 06/05/2024 4:35:49 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: bdfromlv

Yeah, if they have a regular Sherlock Holmes investigatin’, he’ll recommend interrogating the “agent” that made her do that. Sounds like a tidy little operation they got goin’ there.


40 posted on 06/05/2024 4:40:00 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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