Former employee at Sea-Tac faces felony theft charges
Dec 26, 2012, 7:30 AM | Updated: 7:38 am
The man tried to sell the gun to a co-worker for $200. His supervisor then contacted Port of Seattle Police to start an investigation. (AP Photo/File)
(AP Photo/File)
A former Sea-Tac airport worker is facing felony theft charges for a gun he’s accused of stealing out of a passengers bag.
According to the Seattle PI, King County prosecutors say 21-year-old Uriel Ochoa-Valenzuela, took the pistol out of a bag belonging to an passenger flying Alaska Airlines headed to Hawaii.
He tried to sell the piece to a co-worker for $200. His supervisor then contacted Port of Seattle Police to start an investigation.
Port police set up a sting to make sure it was indeed stolen, and the man told other co-wokers it wasn’t the only thing he’d taken.
Ochoa-Valenzuela admitted during his arrest that he had been stealing things for a few months.
