Did you have a bag go missing at the airport last spring? If the airport was Sea-Tac International in Washington, we have a pretty good idea what might have happened to it.

SeattlePI.com reports on a pair of miscreants (sorry, alleged miscreants) from Chicago who have been charged with stealing $45,000 worth of luggage from Sea-Tag baggage claim carousels.

Unlike other airport theft operations that we’ve written about — which often involved airline or airport employees smoothly redirecting luggage or grabbing select, expensive items from bags as they headed to and from airplanes — this couple took a more direct approach to their crime.

Port of Seattle investigators say the twosome simply grabbed bags off carousels and carried them right out to their car.

Authorities say they know of at least 18 successful baggage thefts and one failed attempt.

After police shared photos of the suspects through CrimeStoppers, someone identified the man in the images and claimed that he’d committed similar heists and Portland International in Oregon.

It’s jerks like these — along with ridiculous checked-bag fees — that have so many travelers trying to cram everything they are traveling with into those rolling suitcases that hog up overhead bins.

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