Luggage theft at Sea-Tac Airport reaches all-time high, investigation finds

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8 ай бұрын

Records show that cases of baggage theft have increased over the years at Sea-Tac, especially after the post-pandemic crush of passengers.

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@shari9721 7 ай бұрын

There is no reason why anyone should be able to walk in off the street and have access to the baggage return .

@weareorigin 7 ай бұрын

Why are the guilty ones protected with their faces blurred?

@Piano_Castle 7 ай бұрын

Liberal policy. That's why criminals' faces are blurred.

@useridgaf-p6b 7 ай бұрын

Seattle

@onion_____ 7 ай бұрын

Just in case they're not guilty and the news company doesn't want to get sued

@edmontoncouple1562 Ай бұрын

proves how rotten the system is, protect the criminals not victims is their motto.

@watsonspuzzle 7 ай бұрын

Just fence the area off and set up a machine that scans the baggage claim ticket. If your ticket is valid, you can go in.

@chancepaladin 7 ай бұрын

you'll still be wrestling your bag away from people claiming its theirs. happened to me multiple times. people go in with a shitty bag and walk out with someone else's daily.

@MrArod356 3 ай бұрын

There used to be baggage checkers back in the day but airlines stopped in cost-cutting moves

@Golfnut_2099 Ай бұрын

That is how it used to be when I was younger. You had to show a ticket to enter baggage claim and then show your ticket on the way out.

@bpo4736 Ай бұрын

@@MrArod356 they have decided it’s a “you problem” 🥲

@angryranger4552 7 ай бұрын

A crime is a crime, no matter if you are homeless or insane!

@kingbladerZed 7 ай бұрын

How low will thieves go. The checked luggage need to be at a more secure place for proper pickup.

@keophong9598 7 ай бұрын

“Mentally ill” ??? They knew what they were doing

@Honey-Sanchez 24 күн бұрын

Right. Now days everyone is mentality ill supposedly. Give them the quick Hoffman Test. This test is used to determine whether your stealing some one else's baggage or have ingested PCP.

@Lelffy 7 ай бұрын

Back in the day you had to show someone your baggage ticket and they made sure it matched your bag and then you could exit the baggage area.

@blakkmor5947 7 ай бұрын

You are ABSOLUTELY correct!! The authorities there have gotten so lackadaisical it's sad.

@bubbalo3388 7 ай бұрын

Yep. Probably because airports are too cheap to pay someone to do that job.

@trueessence4317 7 ай бұрын

Too risky for a legitimate U.S. citizen to do. Unless they are armed, that ticket checker is fair game to take by illegals too

@bubbalo3388 7 ай бұрын

@@trueessence4317 in other words, another job an American won't do?

@deroux 7 ай бұрын

Why isn't baggage claim behind tsa security?

@liligman 7 ай бұрын

Not only would there be nowhere to fit it, it would be logistically impossibl without shutting down the airport and redesigning the entire secured side. Not only that, if you kept the current build of the airport, every car coming to the arrivals would have to be screened. It’s logistically not feasible

@RyanUehara12345252Rpage 22 күн бұрын

No, because their is different rules for checked baggage and carry on bags.

@beniamintrif358 7 ай бұрын

Seattle airport is a joke no one should be in baggage claim unless they have some sort of ticket or proof showing that they have authorization to be there.

@user-zp7jp1vk2i 7 ай бұрын

YVR your tag is checked against your ticket when you p/u your bag. I don't see a single security or airport person anywhere NEAR these bags. Ten steps later and the guy is out the door with YOUR stuff. HUH??

@bubbalo3388 7 ай бұрын

It's not just Seattle that doesn't secure luggage at baggage claim where anyone can come and go.

@user-zp7jp1vk2i 7 ай бұрын

@@bubbalo3388 not asking, but I can't think of an airport where you can just waltz out with no oversight with someone else's baggage.....from Kalispell to Kelowna.

@bubbalo3388 7 ай бұрын

@@user-zp7jp1vk2i well I'm telling you. What airports do you go to? I can name some for you. SAN Diego, San Francisco, Orlando, Los Angeles, Oahu, Maui, Seattle.

@user-ol1wl4cv6f 7 ай бұрын

Make baggage claim a secured area only accessible to valid ticket holders.

@containedhurricane 7 ай бұрын

Morality is at an all-time low in the country

@victor256in 2 ай бұрын

morality was always low. it was heavy consequences that stopped crime.

@grantfulwiler1025 7 ай бұрын

Someone stole my dog once and tried to sell him on craigslist. Got my dog back and police weren't involved. Sometimes you have to handle stuff the old fashioned way.

@WarHawk- 7 ай бұрын

Gee, let's 'Trespass' this person 5 or 10 times before we finally decide to arrest him, says the PD.

@onebraincellleft2563 7 ай бұрын

Poor Daniel - he is out so much money and yet the police won't arrest the thieves.

@Anetnetlovesnoopy 4 ай бұрын

SeaTac needs to bring back checking tickets and bag tags.

@ThePecunious 7 ай бұрын

Ridiculous! What a shame!

@MrBobochow 7 ай бұрын

Make the baggage claim part of secure area.

@lynnciagabalenciaga9281 7 ай бұрын

It’s the fact that the news channel just told that man’s business. His equipment is stored in kitsap county in his garage? Like cmon maaaaan. 😩🙄

@hmm5131 7 ай бұрын

Police doing nothing even when they could easily pursue the criminal selling his stuff online? I am shocked. Shocked I say! /s

@AmalgamationofMan 7 ай бұрын

Cops are on average a waste of tax dollars

@visby2548 7 ай бұрын

Police have little control over what they do -- it is the prosecutors and court system ultimately.

@metv2363 7 ай бұрын

I thought this trite and stupid expression was actually "I am shocked, I tell you, shocked!"

@bubbalo3388 7 ай бұрын

Probably because they know they'll be back on the street within 24 hours. I know a cop that told me there are a lot of people they don't bother arresting because they knew they would just be released because there was this one judge that pretty much tossed charges because he felt it wasn't worth his time. One guy was arrested because he discharged his weapon in public and the judge tossed it out.

@nicc8230 Ай бұрын

@@bubbalo3388still this is a poor excuse for cops not doing their job just because they believe someone else won't do their jobs (judges/prosecutor). 2 wrongs don't make a right.

@friedrichhoffmann4248 7 ай бұрын

Don’t allow anyone in without plane ticket

@liligman 7 ай бұрын

How are you going to make a public part of the airport now secured, it’s not feasible. The drives would have to become part of that new security perimeter and every car and person entering it would have to go through screening, it’s not feasible

@JJGreive 5 ай бұрын

The surge in airport luggage theft is inexcusable, and it's a direct result of the airlines neglecting basic security measures. We demand a reinstatement of stringent baggage claim procedures-no claim ticket, no bags. Passenger luggage security should never be compromised for profit.

@laskey2175 7 ай бұрын

You should need to show a ticket to get to baggage claim.

@eulinpetit-woodyear6816 7 ай бұрын

How is the non travelling public have access to these carosels?

@charlesgreen2647 7 ай бұрын

Washington State - we keep electing losers and are surprised by the results.

@bubbalo3388 7 ай бұрын

You must not travel. Washington isn't the the only state where baggage claim is open to anyone off of the street.

@charlesgreen2647 7 ай бұрын

I've been to 49 States and over 30 countries, but I didn't help build those airports with my tax dollars. Law enforcement and personal integrity has gone down the toilet in Washington State.

@peterdoubleyouz 7 ай бұрын

America is pretty much the only country on the planet where baggage claim is accessible to anyone off the street. Why?

@wc4658 4 ай бұрын

How about only allowing people who flew into seatac into luggage area.

@schemp001 7 ай бұрын

typical Blaming the victims for checking the bag

@ElissaMariesa-ro7bp 7 ай бұрын

yet another reason it’s annoying/frustrating when you’re forced to check your carry on at the gate

@jimmyneutron6127 7 ай бұрын

If you can't get into the terminal without proper tsa. Limit who can go into the baggage area!!!! It isn't hard to eliminate it in one swoop..

@R.O.O.T. 7 ай бұрын

The best defense is avoid fly to this airport. Excuse after excuse. SEATAC can close off the baggage area and only allow landed passengers to be there.

@TheShadowKarl 7 ай бұрын

It would be easy to stop this by ONLY allowing ticketed passengers and airline baggage handlers in this area of the airport. They already have large portions of the airport blocked off from non-ticketed passengers, it would not be hard to add this section to the areas blocked to the public.

@bubbalo3388 7 ай бұрын

It used to be this way a long time ago.

@fremontpathfinder8463 7 ай бұрын

The only place I trust to check in baggage is in the YVR airport (Vancouver) - fewer people, more control. On my way back to LA, I never check my bag.

@kennethawesome 7 ай бұрын

I avoid check-in my luggages as much as possible.

@SpotTheBorgCat 7 ай бұрын

My sister and her husband went to Europe last summer and ONLY packed two carry - ons! They were gone for 34 days!! Wow!

@user-ub8uc8gq7r 6 ай бұрын

This is why I always travel light. Take my backpack and 1 small duffel bag carry on. That’s all I need. Nothing gets checked in.

@user-zp7jp1vk2i 7 ай бұрын

In Vancouver YVR Canada security/tag check is right where you see NO PERSONNEL by the exit near the baggage carousels. What is going on in Sea-TAC?? The next step and you're out on the sidewalk and into your car with someone else bags. WTF?

@y_i_fly6256 Ай бұрын

What’s really pathetic is the DA’s inability to prosecute the perpetrators. Criminals victimize, they’re not the victims.

@alanlangley7246 7 ай бұрын

that what happens when you legalize any kind of DRUGS use in the state

@bubbalo3388 7 ай бұрын

Not all criminals use drugs.

@CharleyTank Ай бұрын

Crazy how security captured them opening bags but did nothing about it.

@WalkawayRene12 7 ай бұрын

I haven’t checked a bag in 20 years. No thanks.

@SandraHof Ай бұрын

How about going back to what used to be done; have an airport employee at the exit from baggage who checks that you have the correct bag?

@TC-cd5sm 7 ай бұрын

The best thing to do to keep your stuff safe? Don't fly into SeaTac period. As for the reporter recommending AirTags, just because you can locate your bag, does not mean police can recover it for you. You can track your items to their house and police will not have enough to go in without a search warrant signed by a judge.

@bobbriggs9748 7 ай бұрын

Is there not one bit of moral fibre in america? To the world it looks like a toilet bowl, we want to flush it.

@dmpi483 7 ай бұрын

That explain why I see the homeless dragging their luggage next to their shopping cart.

@barkeyes8592 7 ай бұрын

When checking in your luggage the airport should be able to attach an apple tag of sorts that can only be retrieved out of the claim area by the claimant with the same signal and number. As a thief leaves the area a siren will go off bringing an airline security attendant to address the situation and take the bag from the thief.

@TC-cd5sm 7 ай бұрын

They can easily implement this. They just don't want to because it will cost the airlines more money for security. LaGuardia is one of the few airports in the US that will not let you leave the baggage claim area with your bag unless the bag tag matches your claim check. No claim check, the bag will not leave baggage claim.

@susanf9056 Ай бұрын

Telling passengers the best thing to do is not check your bag at all is absolutely ridiculous. Or logical system can be implemented to stop theft in the first place. Problem solved. Treat the cause not the symptoms.

@tjbishop8823 7 ай бұрын

Undercover police officers should be watching

@thereats3778 7 ай бұрын

You want police to watch people get luggage? That is dumb. You think they will just use their gut instinct to figure out if that person is a thief or passenger?

@JThom-yh3ef 29 күн бұрын

Now that I learned all that, I will definitely arrive at the baggage claim as quickly as possible before these crooks arrive.

@Ppoorespect888 7 ай бұрын

When exactly can we hold law enforcement accountable 😢

@A3Kr0n 7 ай бұрын

Never. Get used to it.

@danielpearson4972 7 ай бұрын

Especially in the Seattle area and anti-law corrupt judicial system and council members nothing will be done. I fly out of international to southeast Asia and alaska from central Washington and to international. When I returning I have just have carry-on. Relocated to Asia and this one reason.

@oldbatwit5102 7 ай бұрын

People stealing luggage. KZfaq... 'Blame Law Enforcement.

@ducksamok1716 Ай бұрын

Baggage claim should be in a secure area and not where anyone from outside can just walk into the airport. Also, put an AirTag in your luggage.

@trailerhaul8200 7 ай бұрын

Brazen. Right in a place that is considered top security in commercial environments

@RollGlide 2 ай бұрын

It's simple: Poor airport flow design. You can't keep luggage claim open to the street access... It's outrageous to hear “Don't check in bags” or “Don't put expensive items in your checked bags.” Airport, do your job!

@Kh0ngKh0ng7 20 күн бұрын

“Best defense is not to check a bag”. 😂😂😂😂😂. Tell the airlines to allow passengers to bring everything on the plane then.

@skippes_view 7 ай бұрын

The reply that I got when a person was caught with my 18 ‘ enclosed trailer and one of my vehicles and lots of my belongings and my Wife’s truck was he couldn’t be charged because of the “ not my pants rule “ he claimed he payed $2,500 it all .. 😡🤬😡

@proudasiangirl576 Ай бұрын

Airports need to protect passengers with their own belongings. They need cordon off the baggage area and ONLY allowed to enter from the arrival flights area and should ONLY be allowed to exit Baggage Claim once they've matched the claim ticket(s) with the baggage. This would ONLY make too much sense. This SHOULD BE the standard at all airports. Why is this not?!

@peggylee2471 28 күн бұрын

Most international airports have baggage claim in a secured area where only arrival passengers can access. I was shocked to find you can walk into baggage claim from the street at airports in the US when i visited there.

@GeminieCricket 7 ай бұрын

thieves are everywhere

@xsnjkwfeny-wr9qr 7 ай бұрын

Surprised to hear this now.. Seemed like a vulnerability for decades

@mariosalceda37 7 ай бұрын

law enforcer too slow to response, the airport authority should start checking claim tag at the airport door.

@kloeffler Ай бұрын

why is baggage claim in the general public area?? They say don't leave your luggage alone around strangers but they do it for you...

@cloverconnections 7 ай бұрын

This isn't rocket science we have to go through security to get into the main part why can't we secure this? We pay enough money to fly come on do better SeaTsc!

@liligman 7 ай бұрын

How do you secure the public part of the airport…how would people coming to pickup their family get in and help, without creating an extremely inconvenient vehicle and person checkpoint that completely secured both drives. It’s not feasible, and if they did it would probably require closing the airport for months to build a new security perimeter. But it’s not rocket science 🤷

@notroll1279 23 күн бұрын

In my local airport, luggage never, never arrives at the carousel before passengers because the airport is understaffed. The only advantage of that is that thieves would likely be caught in the act by the angry owner who has been waiting for his stuff for 20 minutes or more....

@chromebomb 7 ай бұрын

THE AIRPORT IS DANGEROUS

@SLEEPY0088 Ай бұрын

Thanks, that's lesson

@Ppoorespect888 7 ай бұрын

Many airlines forced you to check in the luggage right before boarding because the luggage cabinet are full. When you trying to get off the plane after it’s been landed, it takes forever for you to get off to get to the luggage conveyor. Yes, Delta, I am talking about you 🫵

@gerrylopez5743 7 ай бұрын

Where’s the crime? Baggage claim? Put airline employees there to verify claim tickets and a cop to keep the peace.

@debbieannsmith8962 7 ай бұрын

Crazy. Smh. 😮

@cliffhammer7953 7 ай бұрын

Stay home. Stay safe.

@pamallinder3287 4 ай бұрын

this is crazy

@jenniferrader9395 27 күн бұрын

It’s actually cheaper to ship your extra items than check a bag

@sonnymarino7904 7 ай бұрын

OMG trespassing alerts, that’ll show them thiefs……..

@ddlang2514 Ай бұрын

AirTag is your solution?! Okay, let’s say you track the bag. Now how you gonna get it out of the thieves house before he unloads all your stuff? And without him/her threatening you? The first guy found his stuff being sold online and the police said they couldn’t do anything about it. Oh, I see… the solution they offer is, don’t check a bag.

@privacyconcern 13 күн бұрын

Its time to stop with the honor system for bag return😂😂😂

@christinenicolulis5192 26 күн бұрын

Luggage claim should’nt be accessible to the general public , it still should be behind security till customers claim their bags and leave the security area

@853okgtanfirebird3 7 ай бұрын

Gee What happened to humans checking ticket on bag matched AIRLINE TICKET passenger was given or We need more LIBERALISM in our life's to degrade the system of Law @ Order?????????????????????????????????????????????

@EverythingHasAStory 7 ай бұрын

I'm using the Seatac airport every year for foreign trips. There's no checking once you pick up your bag from the claim area so any person can pick up your bag and just go away. Also, anybody coming from outside the airport building can freely enter the claim area and can pick up any bag. Also, most passengers from abroad are hold up for a long time in the immigration counters while their bags are already in the claim counter ready to be pick up by anybody. These are the cause of the problems.

@jooki3575 Ай бұрын

Maybe don't let outsiders come into the baggage claim area? 🙄

@brewnhell9938 7 ай бұрын

Hey Washington vote better to make these thieves be held responsible. At this point the State is responsible for allowing a soft on crime and excessive homelessness.

@mybadoof4934 26 күн бұрын

I seriously never understood why domestic terminals in the US just have absolutely 0 security, any other country at the very least has some sort of wall or door to block access from the public that didn’t go through security smh

@whistlingsage9817 5 ай бұрын

That was a long native ad for Apple Air Tags.

@DLWELD Ай бұрын

Seems you should have to show a boarding pass prior to accessing a baggage carosel.

@ckrs478 21 күн бұрын

In the day, you had to show your luggage claim check (that matched the luggage ticket attached to the luggage) before you could leave with it. There was an attendant at a gate when you left baggage claim. Let’s reinstate that process immediately..

@lisalee3067 7 ай бұрын

It’s just a free for all total lawlessness.

@da0afd79 26 күн бұрын

The number increase when there’s an increase in traffic??? No, it’s when there’s no consequences for the crime there’s going to be more crime. Airlines even have the audacity to increase baggage fees. How stupid are these people.

@byb0n 7 ай бұрын

Shame on thieves

@thereats3778 7 ай бұрын

😂 cute welcome from underneath your rock.

@scott21784 22 күн бұрын

don't let anyone other than passengers to enter baggage claim

@user-gu6xs9ho1g 7 ай бұрын

Theft is at a all time high. What’s up?

@moij5962 7 ай бұрын

The door should be locked

@leoruiz3969 Ай бұрын

Worthless city workers not doing enough for travelers

@CalebnCapri 7 ай бұрын

Greasy... I feel like running to your bag is necessary

@ishady27 22 күн бұрын

What amazes me that American airport allow visitors from outside to enter the carrousel freely, in my third world country, only passengers that allowed to roaming the carrousel, and they put guards in the exit, and it's a one way thing, you can get out but you must get in from another gate😊

@uwone7778 2 ай бұрын

You mean if there are no consequences criminals will keep doing criminal stuff? You don't say....

@ddlang2514 Ай бұрын

What do you expect from Seattle? Aren’t flyers given luggage claim checks for this reason? Where’s security?

@victor256in 2 ай бұрын

If it is legal for homeless and mentally ill people to commit crimes, why have a law at all?

@rickcastaneda8789 4 ай бұрын

This whole story is just a turn around to blame the victims for checking in their own luggage. No arrests, the airlines aren't taking any blames. Yaaaa, let's blame the victim. It's easier that way.

@melanie7781 7 ай бұрын

There has to be a better way to protect baggage. I don't generally pack things that are valuable, or that I would have a hard time replacing.

@tl1533 7 ай бұрын

Why don't they have staff screened right before leaving the the baggage claim. The interviewee did not specify the solution for the problem.

@0-1-x 7 ай бұрын

To get luggages after flight has to be change.

@samk6611 Ай бұрын

Police stoped me to talk me about my trip when I found My bag was gone.

@mattweh Ай бұрын

Gotta hide AirTags or some other gps tracker in your luggage!

@ValkyrieMagnus 7 ай бұрын

They need better security and Identity Verification before going into baggage claim. Don’t put this on the passengers by saying don’t check in your baggage it should be on the Airport to provide security. It should be simple. No one goes to baggage claim without identification and flight boarding pass