Passenger stole N150, 000, 500 Euros onboard Lagos-Abuja flight

A passenger, Mr. Ovuironye Mathew Dennis, travelling onboard a 6.45am Aero flight on Monday after he had stolen the sum of N150, 000 and 500 Euros from a luggage belonging to an Austrian, Novotny Anton, another passenger on the flight.

Dennis, 31 with 1.65m height as captured in his temporary driver’s licence and seating on flight seat No. 23C, was spotted by a member of the airline’s cabin crew when he removed the Austrian’s bag from the cockpit as if he was changing his seat.

A journalist, with the Nation Newspaper who was onboard the same aircraft reported, reported that the suspect was also caught with a wrap of marijuana. He noted that the suspect had removed the bag from the cockpit where the Austrian sat, took it to his own seat, giving the impression that he was changing his seat and

Unfortunately, he ran out of luck when a female cabin crew raised alarm, asked him to remain seated while he was trying to return the bag to the cockpit before the Austrian could suspect any foul play.

“While trying to return the bag I asked him to seat down. But he became uncomfortable before the plane landed and the white man raised alarm that he couldn’t find his bag,” she said.

Immediately the plane landed at the Abuja airport, the Austrian couldn’t find his bag and raised alarm, but the cabin crew member told him to check the bag with Dennis. After the suspect was stripped naked, he told other angry passengers that he mistakenly took the bag in question for his own.

The Austrian later discovered that the sum of N150, 000 and 500 Euros had been taken from the bag.
Other passengers immediately descended on the thieving Dennis.  He later confessed that he deliberately stole the money in order to raise cash to attend to his ailing mother. The money was later found on him alongside a wrap of marijuana.