A husband and his wife, both United Airlines employees, were sentenced Tuesday to prison time for stealing luggage from passengers whose flights were diverted or cancelled in the aftermath of the Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco International Airport last summer. Sean Sharif Crudup, 44, and Raychas Elizabeth Thomas, 32, both of Richmond, California, pleaded no contest to grand theft and possessing stolen property. They received sentences of nine months and six months, respectively, according to the Los Angeles Times.
They also received probation of three years and were ordered to pay $6,000 in restitutution, with most of that amount going to the high-end department store Nordstrom. Some of the passengers' whose luggage was stolen was headed from San Francisco to the Cayman. The luggage contained jewelry and clothing worth about $30,000.
'Ms. Thomas had taken a bunch of the clothing to Nordstrom to sell it back,' San Mateo County District Attorney Wagstaffe said at the time of the couple’s arrest last July. 'A search warrant was issued for their home in Richmond, and a large number of the items were found there.'
They were arrested at the San Francisco airport on July 25, 2013, as they were about to board a flight to Hawaii. Some of the items Crudup and Thomas stole from other people's luggage was found in their possession. A subsequent search of their home found even more stolen items, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Thomas will surrender to custody in December to start serving time, while Crudup will follow in December.
The Asiana crash on July 6, 2013 killed three Chinese students on board the flight from Seoul. More than 200 other people were injured. The accident wreaked havoc on the San Francisco airport for days, cancelling flights and diverting others.
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