Lu Parker , LA news anchor had ben arrested on Wednesday after a passenger charged her of taking headphones during security screening at LA International Airport.

The anchor, whose legal name was Frances Louise Parker, had been booked on suspicion of petty theft has been held at the Pacific Division  of Los Angeles Police Department.

The incident occurred around 7 AM, when a passenger had been walking through the Transportation Security Administration screening area in Terminal 6, who  noticed that  a personal belonging had been missing. Officer Robert Pedregon, a spokesman for Los Angeles Airport Police said te investigation is going on

When officers came to the screening area, the passenger informed  them what exactly had happened and asked to perform a private person’s arrest.

According to KTLA, Parker had been going through the security line and discovered that a pair of earbud headphones had been left behind.

KTLA stated “She picked them up intending to return them to the owner whom she had been speaking with while in line to clear TSA,”.

But Parker did not find the headphones' owner, so she boarded in herflight. She had been traveling to visit her father who is ill, the news station said.

By Prakriti Neogi