Airport baggage handler pleads guilty to swiping guns from cops’ luggage

By Chris Eger

Last October, three officers with the Bellevue, Washington, Police Department had flown from Houston to Seattle on United Airlines, but when they landed found their guns had been stolen. (Photo: George Bush Intercontinental Airport, File)
A Texas airport employee on Monday pleaded guilty in federal court to the theft of three handguns from police officers catching flights out of the airport.
Mack Stewart, 22, appeared before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Houston and entered a guilty plea to a single charge of possession of a stolen firearm, a crime that can lead to 10 years in federal prison and a possible $250,000 fine.
According to court documents, last October Stewart removed three pistols from the luggage of a trio of Bellevue, Washington, Police Department officers traveling from Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, where he worked as a contract baggage handler. The guns included a Glock 19 9mm, Heckler & Koch P30 .40-caliber, and a Springfield XD 9mm. The officers noted the guns missing when they landed in Washington and reported them stolen.
A press release from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, said that Stewart was pulled over at a traffic stop about a month after the guns were stolen and was

Source: Guns.com