News and notes from around the interweb:
- Charlotte airport staffer stole $5,000 in jewelry from a passenger’s luggage and sold it on Facebook. Their defense? ‘I didn’t steal it, I found it’ (cough) but it still didn’t belong to them and they still sold it, it seems.
Court documents said a woman reported that multiple pieces of diamond-encrusted David Yurman jewelry were stolen from her suitcase during a layover April 11 at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The jewelry was valued at about $5,000, documents said…
In the days after the initial report, detectives said they found a social media account, “Alonys Garcia,” listing every piece of jewelry the woman reported stolen and selling it as a bundled item…Reyes-Garcia claimed he found the jewelry in the secure baggage area.
- Two cases of Legionnaires’ disease linked to Wynn Las Vegas
- Marriott miscodes points earned from charity raffle as compensation for poor service? Threatens to close down customer’s Bonvoy account for receiving too much compensation for bad experiences at their hotels:
Loyalty Program Risk Warning after points compensation
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marriott - Whatever gets you through coach:
this is actually genius omfg pic.twitter.com/TpBWs0Qqcz
— (@beyoncegarden) May 2, 2026
- No one in the world has confrontations with animals as frequently as this man.
Starling rescue today at Dulles Airport. pic.twitter.com/L406xVqxZ3
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) May 3, 2026
- They actually did invest in Frontier Airlines Airbus A319s, so maybe!
@AmericanAir duct tape arm rests and delayed flight due to maintenance issues. Maybe you should invest in some of the spirit planes. pic.twitter.com/A3y6kiFxAM
— EZ (@xEZxx) May 3, 2026
- Yuck.
The cleanliness of the dining trays in First Class, on American Airlines @AmericanAir – a health hazard! pic.twitter.com/RxsZy3jEcn
— Amir Husain (@amirhusain_tx) May 3, 2026
Reyes-Garcia claimed he found the jewelry in the secure baggage area.
“I found it at the airport. In the secure baggage area. In a suitcase. That was zipped up.”
Nice use of “(cough)“ Gary… *cough*
(Sigh) Why, oh why do people insist on checking high value items like jewelry in their checked bags?
A tad ironic that Reyes-Garcia used the airline modeled marketing strategy of “bundling” in his “entrepreneurial enterprise” … lol
Did brain worm Bobby just catch the pigeon or eat it?
Who puts anything of value in their checked luggage????? Hard to have empathy for her.
Who knows… maybe it was an insurance scam… (claim to have put valuables in the bag, etc.)
Bad idea, either way.
@Maryland – Nah, he left it in Central Park as a “joke.”
Does nobody understand his “sarcasm”?
/s
@1990: Why do you think insurance scam? It’s not “my property disappeared”, but “my property was posted for sale by this person”.
@Loren — Let me be clear: I have no idea what this actually is.
That said, it very much would be some form of insurance fraud if someone purchased a policy that covered the items, then concocted a scheme for someone to ‘steal’ them, then to claim reimbursement, double-dip, etc.
Most of the policies I’ve purchased do have a ‘baggage and personal effects’ benefit. Usually you’d have to first claim the loss with the airline or cruise operator, and there are limits, like $250-500 for an item, and up to $1,000 for everything. They do actual cash value, not ‘new’ or replacement. Gotta read the fine print; if you have a laptop, camera, etc. it will not be covered if checked; jewelry is often covered up to only about $500, so never check it. Cash is almost never reimbursed (who in their right mind would ‘check’ cash…)
Over the years, travel policies have helped me recover from loss of prepaid accommodations and a pickpocket incident overseas (gotta get a police report, though). Fortunately, have never had to deal with a medical emergency, but that’d be a major reason to have a comprehensive policy.
Anyway, hope this helps. And, if you were just trolling, please, do keep trolling. Troll the trolls.
Ignorance can be cured with education. Stupid??? FOREVER
hmmm. . . more to this than meets the eye. The malefactor is just identified as a contractor with access to luggage. So while putting valuable items in checked baggage is a poor idea, the luggage was certainly locked. So he had the means to open the bag. And is he randomly searching bags for valuables? Or is searching bags his job & no one is saying so?
@1990: The reason I think this isn’t insurance fraud is you don’t name your partner in such a scheme. She named the person listing it, the person appears to have been contacted as her “defense” (nope, that’s not how the law works) was she simply found them.