A passenger, Ovuironye Mathew Dennis,
travelling on-board a 6.45am Aero flight on
Monday was caught while stealing about N350,
000 from a luggage belonging to an Austrian,
Novotny Anton, another passenger on the flight.
Dennis, 31 with 1.65 height as captured in his
temporary driver’s licence and seating on flight
seat No. 23C, was spotted by a member of the
airline’s cabin crew when he removed the
Austrian’s bag from the cockpit as if he was
changing his seat.
said the suspect was also caught with a wrap of
marijuana.
The suspect had removed the bag from the
cockpit where the Austrian sat, took it to his own
seat, giving the impression that he was changing
his seat and stole a sum of N150, 000 and 500
Euros belonging to the Austrian.
But he ran out of luck when a female cabin crew
raised alarm, asked him to remain seated while
he was trying to return the bag to the overhead
bin before the Austrian could suspect any foul
play.
“While trying to return the bag I asked him to
seat down. But he became uncomfortable before
the plane landed and the white man raised alarm
that he couldn’t find his bag,” she said.
Immediately the plane landed at the Abuja airport,
the Austrian couldn’t find his bag and raised
alarm, but the cabin crew member told him to
check the bag with Dennis.
After the suspect was stripped naked, he told
other angry passengers that he mistakenly took
the bag in question for his own.
The Austrian later discovered that the sum of
N150, 000 and 500 Euros had been taken from
the bag.
Other passengers immediately descended on the
thieving Dennis.
The money was later found on him alongside a
wrap of marijuana.
The suspect told The Nation that he stole the
money to take care of his ailing mother.
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