Washington, August 27
Dinesh Chawla, a prominent Indian-origin hotelier in the US who previously partnered with President Donald Trump’s family in four hotels, has been arrested on charge of stealing bags from the Memphis airport for “thrill and excitement”, according to media reports.
According to police records, airport security footage recorded Chawla, CEO of Chawla Hotels, on August 18 removing another passenger’s suitcase from a baggage claim carousel at the Memphis International Airport in the US state of Tennessee and putting it in his car before taking a flight.
The airport police said they searched the car and recovered the suitcase and another piece of luggage that had been taken from the airport a month earlier, The New York Times reported. Chawla, 56, was arrested when he returned to Memphis on Thursday. He admitted to stealing the two bags along with their contents, valued around $4,000, according to a police affidavit.
The records also said Chawla had confessed to stealing other luggage “over a long period of time”, but it provided no details of other thefts. Chawla told an officer “that he knows stealing luggage is wrong, but he does it for the thrill and excitement”, the NYT quoted the records as saying. Chawla was given a $5,000 bond and released on Thursday. Chawla has a court date scheduled for Friday, a news report said. He could not immediately be reached for comment, it added. — PTI
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