JT Genter

Points & miles writer since 2015. Digital nomad since 2017. I help travelers maximize loyalty rewards programs and credit cards. @awardwallet Editor-in-Chief

[JT Genter @JTGenter]

@TheForwardCabin @Delta Justifiably! 🕵️

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Ugh. Checked baggage stolen off of @Delta baggage claim belt in JFK Terminal 4.

Delta missing baggage claim and police report filed before leaving the terminal.

Never had this happen before. Happy for any tips on what to do next.

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@Delta And by "we", I mean @TheForwardCabin! Jamie used the Tile tracking location to get a visual on our bag and found DC police who were ready to protect and serve.

What an incredible end to this story!
https://t.co/LvFthwBMqt

[Jamie Larounis @TheForwardCabin]

Soooo… look what I found. 🤣

This might be a story for the history books. Man steals backpack in NY. He takes Amtrak train to DC. I decided to play detective and found the thief with the backpack sitting at a bus station. He boards a bus, but luckily I caught the bus number. I found 2 extremely helpful cops to assist and they found the thief a few blocks away and they nabbed him. They asked me to get in the cop car to ID the thief, and we headed to the police station to retrieve the items.

Gotta say, I didn’t have being in a Metropolitan Police cop car on my bingo card today, but with a little perseverance we got this thief locked up!!! Huzzah!

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@Delta OH MY GOD! WE GOT THE GUY... IN DC!! 🙌

For all of those who thought I was an idiot for not having a tracker in the bag... Well, we did! But I didn't want to say that publicly while police were tracking the guy 😏

Used the tracker to catch him red-handed. Items being recovered.

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@TheForwardCabin Dude. You are our absolute hero! I can't believe how much was recovered!!

Truly can't thank you enough 🙏

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@RoyaleWithChee @Delta We had a tracker in it. That didn't keep it from being stolen, but it did help us catch the guy and recover the bag!

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@Simon111xyz @Delta We had a tracker in the bag, but I wasn't going to post that while we were tracking him!

And we just used it to arrest the suspect and recover the bag!

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@TheRideshareGuy @Delta Yes of course. And we just used it to arrest the suspect and recover the bag!

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@travelwithluigi @Delta It was stolen and the cops just caught the guy.

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@girl75219 @Delta I carry a few weeks' worth in my carry-on and the remainder in my checked luggage. Since we live nomadically and can't always get an easy refill overseas, I carry a couple months' worth at a time.

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@ImaginingIndigo @Delta Well one of our bags was still on the belt. My bag was taken. No remaining bags looked anything like mine. My bag has an incredibly distinctive red bag tag.

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@justme6696 @Delta Easy to say when you're on a short trip. My wife and I literally live out of these bags.

[Spitting Truth @CunkOnMercury]

@mglbill @JTGenter @Delta So that you can locate the dumpster where your bag was dumped after they rifled through it? Super valuable information from that AirTag.

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@flysw @Delta Lol the thieves must have been so disappointed!

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@NicholasGess @Delta Yep that's what I'm figuring. Still hoping it was taken mistakenly and will be at least be turned in.

And if I didn't literally live out of this checked bag, I'd be carry-on only.

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@RoyaleWithChee @Delta That doesn't keep the bag from being stolen.

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@Simon111xyz @Delta That doesn't keep the bag from getting stolen.

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@lbmoney89 @Delta That doesn't prevent it from being stolen.

[JT Genter @JTGenter]

@YoTheOrangedog @Delta Not to them but to me they are! And fwiw, all of our clothes are clean. I just did a few loads of clothes yesterday. 12 shirts, 12 pairs of underwear, 12 pairs of socks, 5 pairs of shorts/pants.

But it's the irreplaceable memories that are they worst loss.

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@aheeger @Delta Yeah not the case this time based on the evidence so far.

The thieves are going to be so disappointed.