A wedding album that was found at Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport and remained unclaimed for nearly a year will be returned to its owners today.
An Airport Police Honor Guard will hand-deliver the album to the couple this afternoon at their home in Modesto.
The album was found Sept. 14, 2014, in the arrivals area of the terminal, according to Airport Police Officer Rob Pedregon.
“Standard protocol for lost items is officers attempt to locate the owners for 97 days,” Pedregon said. “Unclaimed items are then assessed, and are either discarded or auctioned off.”
In this case, however, airport officials kept the item, because they “just couldn’t get rid of something with such sentimental value,” Pedregon said.
The cover of the album had a picture of a man and a woman, with inscriptions that read, “Our Wedding Memories” and “Safiullah Jabar Khil & Halimi.”
Images from the scrapbook were posted on the Facebook page of Los Angeles Airport Police, and on the department’s Twitter page (LAAirportPD). Airport officials reached out to the media earlier this month in hopes of spreading the work about the lost album.
The effort quickly paid off.
Hours after the media blitz, Airport Police said they were contacted by a person in Northern California who was a friend of the couple and spotted the album on Facebook. The person also contacted the couple and planning began to reunite them with the album.
