A passenger on a Frontier Airlines flight recounts how a man in a wheelchair allegedly stole his bag containing an ID, wallet, and passport while the traveler was in the restroom. Surveillance footage identifies the suspect as a Black man in a white shirt who grabbed the item before security confronted him at the gate. Although the suspect claimed he intended to present the unattended bag to an agent rather than steal it, admitting he failed protocol, the passenger insists the flight attendant facilitated the theft. Ultimately, the bag was returned with contents intact, yet the incident highlights the dangerous ambiguity between negligence and criminal intent in airport security protocols. [Automatically generated summary]
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Frontier Airlines Bag Heist00:06:22
All right, of course, as you can see, this guy works for Frontier Airlines, and this dude tried to steal a passenger's bag.
Check this out.
I turned around, he's in the back, he snatched it all right off.
The moment I came out the back of the car.
Where were you seated?
A seven.
Okay.
Let me call down, see if somebody can work our cameras, see if we can find anything on it.
He's sad, that's all he's just taking stuff like that.
Stuff sit there all day don't touch it.
As soon as you leave, you just play on the test.
If we have a camera there, we'll be able to see if it was there and then how I came up missing.
Hey, hey, Roy, Mark.
Hey, I got a guy up here.
I don't know if there's anyone down there that works the cameras right now.
But he went into the restroom.
He had somebody pushing him in a wheelchair.
You know what?
Every time I've flown Frontier, I've never seen a white person.
It's always diversity.
Every time.
He went in the wheelchair.
He's got a bag now that's missing off the back of the wheelchair.
It was A Buy to Restrooms by A6.
I take my bag in the restroom with me.
Yeah, so it's an ABM wheelchair pusher.
It's the blue one.
And then a gentleman that was in the wheelchair, he probably looks like he's probably about 22 years old.
I'm 33, but I look at it.
Okay, he's a young 33.
Wearing black plaid pants and glasses, black male.
All right.
That was crazy.
What time's your flight?
I think the cop was just being nice.
Soon.
Let me just double check over here.
Hey, Ken.
Ken, do you happen to have any black bags on your left here?
Black bags?
Yeah.
The last hour.
I didn't know if you had something in your office.
I'm sorry, forgotten out of here.
I gotta watch it real quick.
She'll be on here in a second.
Okay.
Hang up.
Where'd he go to?
Oh.
You say your ID's in there also?
My wallet's in there and my passport.
Everything's in there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because I have to put it in there to pass through the things.
Okay, let me get some information from you.
Well, let's go take a walk down here and see if we can see it this way.
Because I could spot it pretty easily.
It looks so bad, though.
Like, we never saw my roadmap.
Hey, Roy, I'm going to step away from the checkpoint here.
Let's see if we can locate it maybe on the pie post a little bit.
Yeah, I found out the camera.
We're looking at the bag.
You're that black male bald?
Of course he's black.
Yeah, they have discovered who's the cope with who took the bag here.
Black cat in a white shirt.
He's got some sort of wany or not.
He grabbed it off the wheelchair and he started walking off the wheelchair.
If I could follow him on the camp, I was going to send it off like that.
They got it.
Yeah, they got it.
What's that quote?
They say it's not always blacks, but it's always blacks or something.
No, the quote goes, it's not always black people doing stuff, but it's always them.
No, you George Bush the hell out of that.
It's not always black people doing something wrong, but it's always them.
Something like that.
Yeah.
The white people correct us in the comments.
Yeah, what's the correct?
They got it.
All right, active duty U.S. military, please.
We board it this time as well.
It's on her phone.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Come on, guys.
Hello.
I think I need to see this guy.
I need to see him next.
Put up the cameras on him.
Is he working this fight?
Uh-huh.
Awesome.
Hey, yeah, we're going to need to step out here.
Actually, you got any belongings?
Yeah.
Like this pack?
You need it right now?
Yeah, I need that book bag.
And I hate waiting up there.
Yeah, I'll be right back.
He recorded what?
Gate Protocol Violation00:05:19
I don't know.
He stopped me and said you're down here and say he was looking for a book bag.
We can't have people.
You have to have another lifestyle.
Well, I'm not concerned about that, but you're going to have to come up here with me.
What's your name?
Let me see your ID.
Let me take it off so I can have it.
Take it off your neck so I can have your land here.
Is that the pilot?
No, it's a flight attendant.
Oh, the something.
Okay.
So, tell me what happened here.
What's your name, Vern?
My name's Vern.
Vern.
How you doing, sir?
Oh, he's trying to build some rapport.
Okay, what happened?
Well, sir, I saw an unattended bag, and I was going to present it to the gate agent when he was done boarding because he was on a career.
Like, nobody's going to take an unattended bag that you don't know what's in it, and you're going to take it onto a plane that's going somewhere with all these people on it.
No, sir, I did check the bag.
It was secure, but I wasn't able to talk to the gate agent as far as about the bag.
I still had to do my checks and stuff like that.
I wasn't going to do anything with the bag or anything like that.
I was making sure that he was all right, but I did do the check before.
I did my checks, I checked the bag, it was secure, but I was waiting on the gate agent to make sure that I spoke to them.
This dude's done this before.
All he had to do was right by the bathroom, right by TSA.
All they have to do is take the bag to TSA.
Somebody left that bag here.
Once you call over Intercom.
Right.
Because it's got the name right there on the bag.
Right, right, right.
But he took it on the flight, and that flight's fitting to leave.
But I wasn't trying to do anything.
He's not following the protocol.
He said he wasn't trying to do anything.
No, man, you're not following protocol.
If you followed protocol, you wouldn't be in this position.
No, you're trying to steal it.
Yeah.
Driver's license, you're right.
Oh, thief.
Sure.
Where are you from?
I'm from Florida.
Hey, Roy.
Yeah, I got him.
He said, I got him.
Look at his face.
Yeah.
Where are you from?
I'm from Florida.
Look at his hands shaking.
Hey, Roy.
Yeah, I got him.
I got here at 8:14.
Look at him.
I got him.
He's about to pass out.
No, I'm on the inside here.
Sorry.
As I was walking to the gate area, I saw an unattended bag.
This bag right here.
And here's a situation.
I mean, it was nothing as far as he's from Florida.
That's the pilot.
They don't have anyone else for this flight.
Well, I didn't get this name to speak to the gate.
He's the only flight attendant for that flight.
Yeah.
So wait until we saw secure and stuff like that and give it right back to the gated.
But it was unsecured.
So there's nothing inside that's harmful or anything like that.
I wasn't going to do anything with it.
Well, hopefully you can take care of it from there.
But he took it all the way to the gate.
He said allow me to write that TSA where he found it.
Put it up in the luggage, did he?
Let me see if we can give this back to this guy.
Excuse us.
But my intention is not to give you the leave.
Why don't you have a go over here with him?
Okay.
Well, I see this guy can check his bag so he can get on his flight.
Yeah, it's not even.
He's going to take his bag.
What a different place.
Hey, where's he at?
First things first.
Why don't you go through here and check and see what's missing if there's anything?
Just like a book bag.
It's got Wallet, his ID, and everything in there.
Okay, so wait.
Wow.
Wait.
Everything's there.
Everything's right.
Okay.
Can I give you a hook back?
Hey, sure.
All right.
Now.
Oh, wow.
Can I give you a hook back?
Look at your dude.
Dude did an awesome job.
They was actually pushing him in the wheelchair.
And his bag was on the back of the chair.
He went in the front.
Oh, he wasn't in the wheelchair?
Yeah, at the beginning, if you didn't hear it, he was pushing him.
He went in the bathroom with his bag.
And then I guess he wasn't paying attention.
His bag was gone.
Don't you pay attention, man?
No, that dude, that flight attendant, that dude be out there scoping.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He be out there.
He's a predator.
That's what he is.
Yeah, what do you call those before they rob the place?