QUEENS — A JFK airport cleaner was charged with stealing more than $15,000 worth of property from American Airlines planes, including nearly 1,500 tiny bottles of liquor, according to authorities.
Brooklyn resident Juanette Cullum, 48, stole 1,429 unopened bottles of liquor, seven iPads, two laptops, 19 Kindle tablets and a “large amount” of toiletries during a three-year period, a Port Authority spokesman told DNAinfo New York.
“The defendant was a contract employee at Kennedy Airport,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement. “In addition, however, to tidying up the aircraft the defendant allegedly helped herself to the mini bottles of alcohol on board.”
Port Authority detectives approached Cullum after a witness reported that she was stealing property.
She then made statements alluding to the thefts, the Port Authority spokesman added.
Investigators searched her Hull Street apartment where they found the stolen goods.
Cullum was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. She faces up to seven years in prison.
Attorney information for Cullum was not immediately available.
— Additional reporting by Aidan Gardiner
