Over 1,000 Pieces of Missing Luggage Found
Have you ever flown through Phoenix, AZ and ended up with missing luggage?
Well, a recent lost and found police investigation may have uncovered the mystery.
Last Tuesday, detective Homes said police have recovered more than 1,000 missing bags from the home of a couple in a western suburb of Phoenix. In a helicopter video shot by CNN affiliate KNXV, dozens of pieces of black luggage were seen lined up in the front yard of the home in the shade of palo verde trees.
The bags were inside the home Keith Wilson King and Stacey Lynne Legg-King in Waddell, he said. The suspects were arrested Monday afternoon.
Phoenix Police Officer Luis Samudio said that during an investigation into missing luggage, King was spotted by officers walking out of the Sky Harbor International Airport with luggage that allegedly did not belong to him and arrested him.
The investigation continued and they later saw him back at the airport walking away with luggage again. They followed him to his home and executed a search warrant.
According to CNN affiliate KTVK, neighbors said they weren’t surprised and actually were waiting for something to happen. It was odd that they witnessed the 62-year-old King leaving with a horse trailer at night and come back with it packed full. The neighbors said they never saw any horses.
Police arrested King on a felony count of burglary and Legg-King, 38, is being held on a felony count of tampering with evidence as well as additional charges.
All the bags are believed to have been stolen from Sky Harbor. Holmes said authorities are continuing to investigate what the suspects were doing with the bags and whether they had accomplices.
I am suprised that the couple were able to walk in and out of the aiport baggage area, loading bags onto a horse trailer without someone getting suspicious. They would have to pull the horse trailer into the parking lot! Amazing that some schemes like this can be pulled off for so long without anybody saying something.
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