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JFK Baggage Handlers Accused Of Swiping $250,000 In Jewelry

Taken From Box Conspicuously Marked "High Value"

If this doesn't make you want to go out and get that titanium luggage lock, nothing will. Two baggage handlers at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York were arrested this weekend, charged with swiping over a quarter-million dollars' worth of diamonds and other jewelry.

The Associated Press reports a 51-year-old worker and his supervisor, 39, are charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property. The pricey trinkets were reportedly stolen from a container marked "high value" in transit through the airport from Switzerland to Brazil.

The AP doesn't say which airline the suspects worked for, though the jewelry was found in a locker inside the American Airlines terminal. Police say the supervisor broke the seals on the package, and gave three boxes of jewelry to the other worker to hide.

Each is being held on $5,000 bail, and faces up to 15 years in prison.

Hmm... maybe the Swiss should have marked the box "Live Poisonous Tarantulas" instead...

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