American Airlines office hit by gunmen

Anyone who has ever purchased an airline ticket knows the rising costs of air travel can hurt. But this weekend, it was the airline company hurting. Sometime early Sunday morning, the American Airlines office at San Cas Plaza, was broken into. According to police reports, the security supervisor for the airline stopped by the office to check on his guard on duty when he was attacked by two Hispanic males, one of whom was armed with a handgun. The supervisor was then locked in a security booth, while the guard was bound, gagged and thrown into the getaway vehicle. The men then proceeded to ransack the empty office, making off with a safe containing some sixteen thousand in cash and nine thousand dollars in checks. The safe itself was valued at six thousand dollars. The abandoned getaway vehicle, along with the security guard was later found on Sunrise Avenue, off Coney Drive. Police are investigating and are not ruling out the possibility of an inside job, as the airline is said to rarely hold money in its office.