A former airport employee allegedly involved in a scheme to steal money from airport parking lot fees has agreed to plead guilty in the case.

Glen C. Fernandez, one of six former airport employees charged in the theft case, signed a plea agreement, of which Superior Court Judge Steven Unpingco received a copy yesterday morning.

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If Unpingco accepts the agreement, Fernandez will repay the airport $6,000 and help the government prosecute cases against the other airport employees involved in the alleged scheme, said Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Moots. The employees are accused of collectively stealing $57,000 from the airport, according Superior Court of Guam documents.

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The former airport employees were accused of making deals with tour bus operators so they could pocket some of the parking lot fees they charged the bus companies.

I come from the camp that theft though wrong, should NOT in general result in incarceration, a person stealing something should have to pay the person back plus punative damages (which could be community service rather than cash).

So in this case I think paying the airport parking company the money back is a sound decison. The airport also fired them, so crime didn’t pay this time and fortunately some petty white/blue collar ‘criminals’ who didn’t deserve time inside have the chioice to move on with their life on the straight and narrow rather than be forced into a life of crime by going to prison.

Call me liberal on this one

More airport news

TWO Nelson car dealers have jumped on board a police scheme to put the brakes on number plate theft.

Perry’s Peugeot and Walker Farrimond Citroen have signed up to support Pendle police’s “Safe Plates” initiative which involves the free fitting of tamper proof security screws to car number plates.

They are the first car dealerships in the country to sign up to the scheme which has seen more than 3,000 cars fitted with the special screws.

And the two dealers have promised to fit the security screws to all new vehicles and previous customers’ cars being serviced.

The screws are designed to stop thieves stealing number plates and using them in crimes like driving off from petrol stations without paying.

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He said: “Safe Plates was launched last April in response to a rise in number plate thefts and subsequent drive off offences at local petrol stations.

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“The only real way to resolve the issue is to make sure that every new car has its number plate fitted with these special screws and, thanks to the support of Perry’s and Walker Farrimond here in Nelson, we’re now on our way towards achieving that.”

Now I’m all for anti-theft devices etc… and protecting your car number plates sounds like a good idea. However, I’ve seen the sort of screws they’ll use and it’s not that hard tog et hold of screwdrivers to remove them.

I’ve got a screwdriver set that has a lot of unussual shaped screw driver bits, so I bet one of those would fit. Will have to do some more research to see if I’m right.

So anyone want their number plates stealing this weekend