A crafty thief nabbed more than a quarter of a million dollars from a Caribbean-bound airplane after crawling through the bathroom to access the cash-stocked cargo hold, police said.
The unidentified crook complained of feeling sick and spent most of the flight in the bathroom, flight attendants told police.
But in fact, airline officials said, the man was tearing out panels in the restroom in order to crawl into the cargo hold.
A Brink's security guard had placed sacks of cash containing $1.6 million in the hold of the Air Antilles plane before it took off from Guadeloupe for a 40 minute trip to Saint Martin, according to Fox News.
The guard discovered that $238,000 was missing after he retrieved the sacks when the plane landed.
The thief, meanwhile, tried to slip away by asking a flight attendant to call an ambulance to pick him up, Fox reported.
He later said he felt fine and walked out of the airport without being searched, according to Fox.
A woman who was travelling with the man was questioned but did not have any cash on her.
Police suspect the thief used the bathroom to sneak into the hold after airplane cleaners found a bundle of cash he had left behind near the toilet.
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