Couple steals up to 1k bags at Ariz. airport

Couple steals up to 1k bags at Ariz. airport


ABC News
11/03/09 9:03 pm


PHOENIX -
Two people suspected of stealing up to 1,000 pieces of luggage from baggage claim carousels at
Phoenix's airport have been arrested by police who found heaps of the stolen bags strewn
throughout their home.
There were so many suitcases that Phoenix police could only give a rough estimate of their number
Tuesday as they pulled them out one by one and gathered them in the yard of Keith Wilson King and
Stacy Lynne Legg-King's suburban residence.

"A piece of luggage here, a piece of luggage there, I would imagine gets stolen out of airports all the time,"
Phoenix police Detective James Holmes said Tuesday.
"This is a livelihood. There's a lot of luggage and there's a lot of victims."

King, 61, and Legg-King, 38, were arrested Monday, and each was booked into jail on charges of theft
of property and possession of stolen property. Legg-King also was arrested on suspicion of tampering
with evidence. It was not immediately clear how the two are related ....

The home was in complete disarray, Holmes said, with the luggage, clothing and other items including
garbage scattered about.

"The amount of luggage being stored inside of the residence was almost surreal,"
Officer Kendall Goo wrote in a court document.

Deborah Ostreicher, a spokeswoman for the Phoenix airport, said airlines stopped checking
passengers' baggage claim tickets there sometime in the last 10 years as a cost-cutting measure.



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Anyone else here ever had luggage stolen at an airport?

I have.


Assholes

So far *knock on wood* this has never happened to me. Maybe my luggage looks too cheap to be worth the steal...

This is why I only carry on.

actually this would be very easy to do. does anyone put valuables in checked luggage?

KK wrote:

actually this would be very easy to do. does anyone put valuables in checked luggage?

Greg Fokker did.

KK wrote:

actually this would be very easy to do. does anyone put valuables in checked luggage?

Before 9-11 I actually flew with a firearm. Too much hassle now.

BMG wrote:

KK wrote:

actually this would be very easy to do. does anyone put valuables in checked luggage?

Before 9-11 I actually flew with a firearm. Too much hassle now.

you can hide it inside of me and I'll sit on your lap

BMG wrote:

KK wrote:

actually this would be very easy to do. does anyone put valuables in checked luggage?

Before 9-11 I actually flew with a firearm. Too much hassle now.

i remember going to florida once on peoples express. some guy came on with a guitar case full of rifles

On a trip to Seatle I had a bag do on to Alaska. Took 3 days to get it back. But what surprises me about this story is what the hel took them so long to catch them.