According to the U.S. attorney’s office, he fraudulently booked more than 120 flights on four airlines to Atlanta, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and other destinations.
Of those flights, 34 were on Spirit Airlines. In a news release, prosecutors said he claimed to work for seven airlines, providing about 30 badge numbers and dates of hire to book flights through a website available only to flight crew. He still had to provide his name and birth date to get a boarding pass.
“That information is how he was ultimately caught, with his fraudulently secured flights piling up in Spirit’s log books until it was large enough for the airline to take notice,” court documents say.
A federal grand jury handed up the indictment in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in October, but Alexander wasn’t taken into custody until February. He was arrested trying to fly from San Francisco to Australia, according to court records.
Alexander most recently worked for American Airlines in customer service, court documents say, but had been suspended without pay for about a year when he was arrested.
Alexander was convicted of four counts of wire fraud, each of which could carry a maximum of 20 years in prison, and one count of entering a secure airport area under false pretenses, which has a maximum sentence of 10 years. Each count can also come with a top fine of $250,000.
He is scheduled to be sentenced in August, according to the Justice Department’s news release.
See like all thieves, he was caught because he got greedy
