Happy Ending for Couple: Wedding Album Lost at LAX Returned
It took a year, but the happy couple who lost their wedding album at LAX were finally reunited with it. (Photo: Los Angeles Airport Police/Facebook)
A wedding album that was lost at LAX a year ago was finally been returned to its owners yesterday, thanks to the help of social media and some really determined Lost & Found staff.
The album was one of several wedding mementos in a briefcase that was left in the arrivals area of LAX’s international terminal on September 14, 2014 by Safiullah Jabarkhail, a former US Army interpreter who had spent seven years working with the American military before fleeing his native Afghanistan with his wife and child last year.
As the LA Airport Police explained in a Facebook post they put up just two weeks ago, “Standard protocol for lost items with Airport Police is to hold an item for 97 days in lost and found, items are then assessed and either discarded or auctioned off. Since this item holds such a large sentimental value, Los Angeles Airport Police could not discard this item and for over a year have been diligently searching for the owner.”
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To do so, the airport police posted on Facebook, Twitter and their own website and went to the media for help tracking down the couple. Very shortly after the outreach effort began, a friend of the couple saw the Facebook post and contacted the police.
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In a very happy ending, a team of the airport police honor guard delivered the album back to the Jabarkhails at their home in Modesto, California yesterday. And the timing couldn’t be more perfect: The couple is expecting a baby in a week.
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