Workers accused of mini-bottle theft at LaGuardia = = = = Wednesday April 23, 4:00 PM EDT = In NEW YORK story headlined "Workers accused of mini-bottle theft at LaGu= ardia," please read in fourth paragraph ... The stores then sold the mini= bottles for two or three dollars apiece, a spokesman for the district at= torney said ... instead of ...The stores then sold the mini bottles for a= bout $1.25 apiece... (correcting price of resold bottles). A corrected repeat follows: NEW YORK, April 23 (Reuters) - Eleven LaGuardia Airport workers stole hun= dreds of thousands of mini-bottles of airline liquor and resold them to n= eighborhood stores in New York, authorities said on Wednesday. The employees of LSG Sky Chefs Inc. and two others pilfered more than 400= ,000 mini-bottles, worth about $1.5 million, from an airport storage faci= lity over the last year, said Queens, N.Y., District Attorney Richard Bro= wn. = They allegedly stole cases of Dewar's Scotch, Courvoisier cognac and Baca= rdi rum -- a case holds 190 bottles worth about $760 -- and resold them t= o local stores for about $240 each. The stores then sold the mini bottles for two or three dollars apiece, a = spokesman for the district attorney said. In-flight, they sell for $4 eac= h, authorities said. Irving, Texas-based LSG Sky Chefs, whose parent company is German airline= Deutsche Lufthansa AG (LHAG), is a flight caterer that supplies more tha= n 260 airlines worldwide. Its spokeswoman could not immediately be reache= d for comment. The accused men include a supervisor, beverage assemblers and truck drive= rs for Sky Chefs and a supervisor and a warehouseman for North American A= viation. The 11 men, all from New York, face charges of grand larceny, criminal po= ssession of stolen property and conspiracy and, if convicted, face prison= sentences of up to seven years. "The defendants blatantly broke the law, systematically taking liquor ord= ers from retailers in addition to stealing the merchandise," said Inspect= or General Robert Van Etten of the Port Authority of New York and New Jer= sey, which oversees the region's airports. The men were arrested after surveillance by agents in what the authoritie= s dubbed "Operation Swig Swag." = =A92003 Reuters Limited. = Roger EWROPS