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Charges Brought in Paris Airport Thievery
The friendly skies might be a little friendlier from now on.
The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office has filed misdemeanor theft charges against 10 L.A. International Airport workers and one transient suspected of rifling through travelers' baggage, including the swank suitcases of Paris Hilton and singer Keyshia Cole, and pilfering some of their finer possessions.
Twenty-seven-year-old George Penaranda, a former baggage screener, has been accused of lifting a $100,000 limited-edition watch from Hilton's carry-on luggage last year in the British Airways terminal. The City Attorney's Office said that a coworker spotted Penaranda snatching the timepiece and reported the incident to a supervisor.
"Today we are sending a message to those who might consider committing a crime at LAX, be they an employee, a passenger or a visitor--you better think again," City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo said Friday during a news conference at the airport.
The charges leveled at the 11 suspects include petty theft, grand theft and conspiracy, all of which carry penalties ranging from six months to a year in jail and fines up to $1,000.
"We're a public law office, so whenever there's a significant announcement or a significant legal action being taken, it's our duty and obligation to tell the public…that we are working to ensure the safety and security of travelers at LAX," City Attorney's Office spokesman Nick Velazquez told a local wire service.
And as if the U.S. Department of Homeland Security wasn't the cause of enough headaches for this country, eight of the people charged, including Penaranda, worked for the federal outfit's Transportation Security Administration and are employed by LAX, while the other two are employees of an LAX subcontractor, Velazquez said.
Of course, Hilton is no stranger to the concept of purloined possessions. Most recently, the Simple Life star filed an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against the purported operator of the now-offline Website ParisExposed, who was exhibiting items that had been auctioned off after a moving company missed a payment on the storage facility where Hilton originally stashed the goods, which included jewelry, clothing and personal documents such as diaries, letters and bank statements.
Hilton was also the victim of at least one pair of idle hands last Mother's Day, when a basket of goodies worth $10,000 intended for mom Kathy was swiped from outside the Hilton family's Beverly Hills mansion. The deliveryman had put the package down in order to ring the bell at the gate, and someone in a moving car reached out and snatched the gift.
(Originally published Thur., Mar. 22 at 8:34 p.m. PT)
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