A second suspect has been charged in connection to the theft of approximately $250,000 in cash from John F. Kennedy International Airport last Thursday, authorities announced
Quincy Thorpe, a Delta Ground Service employee, was previously arrested after he was seen taking the bag of cash instead of scanning and loading it onto a Delta plane, according to the complaint against Thorpe. Thorpe's friend, Emmanuel Asuquo Okon, 33, met Thorpe at a remote part of JFK, behind a parked aircraft, to get the bag of cash from Thorpe, according to the complaint against Okon.
Read More"The case is completely circumstantial and there are no allegations of an actual crime happening," Okon's attorney, Douglas Rankin, told CNN."I expect the charges to be dismissed in the not so distant future."Okon was released on $80,000 bond, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.He was arrested Saturday night at the airport after returning from vacation, Rankin said.
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