New Orleans airport baggage handlers booked thefts from luggage

Three baggage handlers at Louis Armstrong International Airport were arrested Thursday in connection with the theft of guns and electronics from checked luggage, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
Neishel Santana, 22, was booked on charges of theft and possession of stolen property. Derrin James, 19, was booked on two counts of theft of a firearm. Romalice Honeycutt, 23, was booked on a charge of being a principal to theft of a firearm.
The release said the trio was caught after Dallas, Texas law enforcement, investigating the theft of a laptop from luggage on an American Airlines flight out of New Orleans, found out through a pawn-shop database that the computer had been sold at Jefferson Parish pawn shop and contacted local authorities.
Detectives traced the sale to Santana, who was arrested while on the job Thursday morning, according to the release, and investigators found a pair of iPads, two laptops, a GoPro camera and other electronics in her car.
Under questioning, Santana admitted that she knew the laptop she sold to the pawn shop was stolen, according to the release, and told investigators that Honeycutt and James, fellow baggage handlers working for Envoy Air Inc., were also involved in thefts at the airport. They were also arrested while on the job at the airport.