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Florida woman’s Apple Watch traces lost luggage to airport worker’s home
A shop worker at a South Florida airport was charged with stealing thousands of dollars in electronics and clothing after a woman showed up to his home looking for missing luggage that she tracked to his address by using a signal from her Apple Watch. An arrest affidavit for Junior Geneus Bazile, 29, was filed in March but did not name the woman. However, Paola Garcia told Local 10 News this week that she was the passenger involved in the incident at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. According to the affidavit,...
Spirit Airlines passenger uses Apple Watch to track stolen suitcase to airport employee's home
Airlines deal with millions of bags a year, so it’s understandable that mistakes happen. Unfortunately for Paola Garcia, though, not all missing bags are the result of a mistake. Local 10 New reports that when her suitcase went missing, she was eventually able to track it down, only it wasn’t at the wrong airport. It was in the home of the airport employee who stole it. Garcia had flown into Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, and after reportedly waiting about two hours for her bag, she explained her situation to some...
Airline passenger tracks down stolen luggage to airport worker's home using Apple watch
Losing your luggage on a flight is any passenger's worst nightmare, but what if it ends up at an airline worker's home? That’s exactly what happened to Spirit Airlines passenger Paola Garcia, who used one of her Apple devices to track down her belongings after they were allegedly swiped by a worker inside Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida, according to Local 10. Garcia told the news outlet that she had been waiting for her small pink hard-shell suitcase containing Apple devices like her personal MacBook and two Apple Watches,...
Spirit Airlines passenger waits hours for suitcase — until Apple Watch tells her it's at airport worker's home
After a Spirit Airlines passenger came up empty-handed at the Fort Lauderdale baggage carousel, she received a message from her Apple Watch, which was packed in her missing suitcase: her luggage was at a house 50 minutes away from the airport. More specifically, as she later found out, her suitcase was at the home of an airport retail worker. Paola Garcia, a university student whose computer had been packed inside her missing bag, waited for two hours at the airport for her pink hardshell suitcase before airport officials told her...