Police say a United Airlines employee exploited the chaos surrounding the July 6 crash-landing of Asiana Flight 214 to steal from passengers, CNN reports.

Authorities allege United customer service representative Sean Crudup and has fiancée stole thousands of dollars' worth of goods from bags belonging to passengers whose flights were diverted during the ensuing closure of the San Francisco airport.

Some of those bags ended up arriving in San Francisco before their owners did.

CNN reports those early-arriving bags began to pile up and that "surveillance video showed Crudup stealing bags and handing them to his fiancee (Raychas Thomas) and another unnamed woman, the prosecutor's office said."

"The unfortunate coincidence is that Asiana was on July 6, and this crime was on July 8," Sgt. Wesley Matsuura of the San Mateo Sheriff's Department says to ABC News. "It was a crime of opportunity. A lot of bags were down there."

Matsuura adds to ABC that there's currently no evidence that Crudup and Thomas were specifically targeting Asiana passengers involved in the crash, though "it could still play out thsat way."

San Mateo County Dist. Atty. Stephen Wagstaffe details some of the allegations against Crudup and Thomas.

L.A. TIMES: Airline worker charged with stealing luggage after Asiana crash

"On July 8 our victims were flying home to SFO from the Cayman Islands," Wagstaffe tells the Los Angeles Times. "Their luggage, several pieces, which contained an extensive amount, $30,000 of clothing … went on an earlier plane and landed at SFO before the crash."

The owners of the luggage, however, were diverted to Houston and then to Los Angeles. They ended up driving to San Francisco, where their luggage was missing.

Wagstaffe alleges in the Times story that "Ms. Thomas had taken a bunch of the clothing to Nordstrom to sell it back."

Apparently identifying herself as the sister of the purchaser, Thomas received $5,000 from the return, authorities tell KTVU TV of Oakland.

A clue apparently came from a personal shopper who had helped the theft victims during a shopping trip. The shopper called the woman to ask why "her sister" returned the items. The victim then informed her that she doesn't have a sister.

Authorities say they arrested Crudup and Thomas on July 25 at San Francisco International Airport as they were attempting to fly to Hawaii. Authorities also say that a search of the suspects' homes allegedly turned up more items reported stolen from diverted SFO passengers.

Crudup and Thomas were out on bail as of Wednesday morning while police say they continue to look for the third suspect seen in the surveillance video.

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