Thief hides in suitcase to steal bags in airport bus.

A flexible thief squeezed into a large
suitcase and then emerged to
plunder valuables from other bags
while inside the luggage
compartment of a Spanish airport
bus, police say.
The thief had a partner who would
buy a bus ticket and place the
suitcase in a bus from Girona airport
to Barcelona in northeastern Spain,
police said in a statement late on
Tuesday.
“Once the trip began, he would get
out of the suitcase, search for
valuable objects and hide them in a
smaller bag he carried with him,”
regional Catalan police said.
The thief would then get back into
the suitcase, to be reclaimed by his
partner at the end of the 90-minute
trip.
Alerted by the repeated thefts, police
inspected a suspicious bag on the
bus on June 3 and opened it up.
“They saw there was a man
doubled up almost like a
contortionist,” the statement said.
The man had a mobile phone, a
small bag and a sharp object to
open zips and locks, police said.
Officers boarded the bus and
detained the man who had left the
suitcase in the luggage
compartment..