Airplane cleaner charged with taking expensive watch dropped by passenger

SALT LAKE CITY — A North Salt Lake man whose job was to help clean airplanes at the Salt Lake City International Airport is accused of taking a $9,000 watch left behind by a passenger.

Filiki Tiaua, 26, was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with theft of lost property, a second-degree felony.

On Nov. 21, a man was on a Delta flight headed to Salt Lake City, “and put his Omega watch valued between $7,000 and $9,000 in his pocket during the flight. After he deplaned, he realized the watch was missing. He called the flight crew, but no one had seen the watch,” according to charging documents…

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