Southwest Airlines Employee Sentenced 6 Months For Stealing Guns From Bags

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

December 1, 2021

A former Southwest Airlines employee is being sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to possessing stolen guns.

Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that Mark Hunter of St. Louis admitted to the thefts while working as a baggage employee for the Dallas based airline.

After a passenger traveling through the St. Louis airport reported a pistol being stolen from his luggage, federal agents compared the dates of other gun thefts from bags and Southwest’s scheduling records.

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