Three people who work at the airport in Halifax are facing charges for allegedly going into people’s luggage and stealing things.

The RCMP say on Jan. 28, police received information about a possible theft from luggage on a flight prior to it taking off.

Working with security at the airport, the Mounties say they identified cargo-handling service employees, who according to a release, “were allegedly searching through checked luggage after the bags had been loaded onto an aircraft during the evening of January 27.”

This week, police arrested two 23-year-old men, one from Stewiacke and another from Dutch Settlement, along with a 19-year-old Halifax man.