Traveler tracks his stolen luggage with Apple AirTag

A traveler recovered a suitcase stolen from baggage claim at Atlanta Airport thanks to an Apple AirTag he slipped into his bag while packing.

Jameel Reid had about $3,000 worth of belongings in his suitcase, but when he went to pick up the bag after landing at Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, he found it was nowhere to be seen.

Reid pulled out his phone to check his AirTag app, only to see his bag was somewhere near Grady Memorial Hospital in downtown Atlanta.

Days later, the app showed his bag was near the airport and Reid was able to provide the exact location to police, who swooped down on the bag’s location and discovered the thief was wearing Reid’s shirt, pants and socks.

Jameel Reid found his stolen luggage with an Apple AirTag he pocketed while packing

Jameel Reid’s bag after finding it. The police found the thief with his clothes

Reid was finally reunited with his luggage on Wednesday morning after the harrowing ordeal.

“I had about $3,000 worth of stuff in here,” he told Good Morning in America while filming his newly recovered chrome wheeled suitcase, recalling it was nowhere to be seen when he pulled it from baggage claim days earlier wanted to pick up.

He said he had the AirTag in his luggage for a long time and immediately checked his phone to see what it might be telling him.

“I just packed it because I knew I’d probably need it one day,” he said.

“I pulled out my cell phone and it showed it was at Grady Memorial Hospital. I looked at it for a few minutes and it still says Grady,” he said.

“I’m like okay, this doesn’t look so good, I’m starting to get a little nervous.”

When police caught the suspect days later using the AirTag, Reid said, “He was wearing my shirt, my jeans, and my socks.”

Reid shared a picture of his bag after it was found, with its contents scattered at random after apparently being ransacked.

AirTags and other cellphone-connected tracking devices like Tile Trackers range from $30 to $50.

The tags work by pinging nearby iPhones and sending a signal to the owner’s phone to indicate where they are.

Apple AirTags cost about $29. It helped Jameel Reid discover his stolen bag

Jameel Reid said his bag contained about $3,000 worth of property when it was stolen

The tracking devices have been used to help people find countless missing items, including a woman from the UK who recently used one to track down her stolen car.

Zoë Pettit and her friends managed to track down their Ford Fiesta after it was stolen in February.

Like Reid, they found the car using the AirTag app and called the police to help them recover it from the thief.

And in January, a California woman was able to find her beloved dog, who had been swept away by a flood thanks to the AirTag she had attached to his collar.

However, the small metal disks have also been discovered to be used by stalkers, who discreetly place them on people they wish to follow.

Last year, a young mother in Texas said she found an AirTag in her holdall on her trip from Texas to Maine.

“I think they would definitely have hurt me. I don’t think you do that without a reason,” she told Inside Edition. “It was almost 14 hours before I knew this was happening,” she said.

The device is designed to prevent “unauthorized tracking” by alerting a nearby iPhone when the AirTag has become detached from its user. For example, if someone attaches an AirTag to a car but is not supposed to get into the car, the driver of the vehicle should be warned that an AirTag is nearby or moving with them.