The chance that my checked baggage received’t make it to my ultimate vacation spot is one in all my greatest worries when touring by aircraft. As such, studying that authorities can harness the facility of Apple’s AirTags to do good and discover lacking baggage was fairly comforting, nearly sufficient to make me overlook the creepy things folks do with the little monitoring discs.

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office in Florida announced Saturday that it had arrested 19-year-old Giovanni De Luca for allegedly stealing a whole suitcase and taking greater than $15,000 value of jewellery and different objects from one other piece of bags on the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport, the place the teenager works as an airline subcontractor, in July and August. The traveler who reported the lacking suitcase in July instructed authorities that it contained greater than $1,600 in objects in addition to an AirTag, which was key within the investigation.

According to the sheriff’s workplace, the traveler with the AirTag instructed police that the final time it had been lively was within the space of Kathy Court within the metropolis of Mary Esther, Florida. Apple allows individuals who discover an AirTag that’s not theirs to disable it and cease it from sharing its location with its proprietor.

However, this final piece of location knowledge was apparently sufficient for police, who then began looking for airport workers who lived close to Kathy Court.

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“[Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office] investigators made consensual contact with De Luca [on Aug. 10] at his home on Kathy Court. They were able to recover the items reported missing August 9th,” police wrote in an announcement on Facebook. “De Luca also admitted rummaging through the first victim’s suitcase and removing an Apple Airtag. Her belongings have not been recovered.”

De Luca is charged with two counts of grand theft, which is a felony in Florida. If convicted, he might face a 5 to 10-year jail sentence in addition to a tremendous of as much as $10,000.