Martin Alfonsi
A woman who appears to work for an airline is captured in a photo taken with Martin Alfonsi’s stolen iPad.
This money changer apparently has no cents.
A South Carolina man whose iPad was swiped at LaGuardia Airport got quite a shock when photos of the apparent thief started popping up on his iCloud account — which stores photos taken from the pilfered gadget.
It seems the not-so-sly suspect works at an airport currency exchange booth and was careless enough to use the iPad to photograph herself in uniform.
Martin Alfonsi
The woman caught in photos in an airport uniform is also pictured visiting the Statue of Liberty with an unknown woman.
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"You would think you can trust an employee of the airport who is in uniform," Martin Alfonsi, 70, said after the Daily News tracked down the apparent bandit's workplace. "It's just patently dishonest."
The woman's co-worker at a Travelex Currency Exchange booth in Terminal B identified a photograph of her to The News. The woman has been working there for five years and is known by her first name, Naima, the colleague said.
Martin Alfonsi
The pictured woman's co-worker at a Travelex Currency Exchange booth in Terminal B identified a photograph of her to The News as a woman named Naima.
No one has been charged, and Port Authority cops say the case is still under investigation.
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Alfonsi's strange ordeal began on Sept. 11, 2012.
Martin Alfonsi
Martin Alfonsi, of South Carolina, thought the iPad was long gone until he checked his iCloud and saw some strange photos.
He and his wife, Kay, were at the tail end of a trip to the city to visit their daughter, Sharyn Alfonsi, who is an on-air correspondent for "60 Minutes Sports."
While Martin Alfonsi was standing at the Air Spirit ticket counter, his wife was seated nearby, with the iPad beside her. The silver iPad was a birthday gift from his daughter.
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Martin Alfonsi
Apparently someone took the opportunity to snap some tourist pictures with Martin Alfonsi’s stolen iPad — though they didn’t realize he could still view them on iCloud.
At one point, Kay Alfonsi got up to answer a question from her husband. By the time she got back to her seat less than a minute later, the device was gone.
Alfonsi and his wife immediately filed a report with the Port Authority Police Department. But then they forgot about the stolen iPad, convinced it was long gone.
Alfonsi even bought himself a new one.
Martin Alfonsi
Graduation is a special moment — even more so when the device your using to capture it was paid for by someone else.
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It wasn't until two months ago when Alfonsi logged onto his iCloud account that he spotted the photos of the apparent thief. There were numerous shots of the woman posing at the airport.
Others documented family trips, including one to the Statue of Liberty.
"Here they are going to the Statue of Liberty, and they stole," said Alfonsi, a retired IT executive. "They're thieves."
Interspersed among the images were a handful of digital postcards with Arabic writing. One showed a woman with a bullet in her mouth. Alfonsi, concerned about the images, sent the photos to the Port Authority police in September. But the thief is still out there.
Alfonsi doesn't have a record of the device's serial number, which he acknowledges might be hampering the probe.
Alfonsi, for his part, doesn't even care about getting his iPad back. He just wants the bandit to learn a lesson.
"I want these people to know that it's not right to steal," said Alfonsi. "And if you steal, there are consequences."
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