PAX ON A SUPER MD80 SMOKES IN LAVATORY AND STEALS WALLET FROM A CABIN ATTENDANT.

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FEMALE PAX SUSPECTED OF STEALING MONEY AND CREDIT CARDS FROM FLT ATTENDANT #4'S WALLET. WALLET TAKEN FROM POCKET IN TOTE BAG AND THROWN ON FLOOR IN ROW IN FRONT OF SUSPECTED PAX. SHE BOLTED TO FRONT OF ACFT AT REALIZATION THAT WALLET HAD BEEN GONE THROUGH. CAPT WAS ALERTED. THE WOMAN WAS DETAINED AS SHE WALKED UP JETBRIDGE. WOMAN RAN IN TERMINAL BATHROOM AND STARTED FLUSHING. POLICE WERE CALLED. HOWEVER; BY THE TIME THEY ARRIVED; SEARCHED WOMAN IN BATHROOM; NO CREDIT CARDS FOUND AND CASH NOT IDENTIFIABLE. SAME WOMAN ALSO SUSPECTED OF SMOKING IN AFT LAVATORY EARLY IN FLT. ALSO; NO WITNESSES. JUST AS WITH THEFT; NO ACTUAL WITNESSES TO THEFT. PAX'S BAGS ON SEATS; AT REAR OF ACFT. THIS WAS A HALF-FULL; EVENING FLT. SHE WAS A DARK WOMAN WHO SAT IN ROW IN FRONT OF FLT ATTENDANT'S BAG. INITIATED CONVERSATION WITH FLT ATTENDANT -- CUTESY; FRIENDLY. AFTER SMOKING INCIDENT; I WARNED PAX I SUSPECTED HER; AND WE DID NOT LEAVE HER ALONE IN BACK. HOWEVER; DURING SVC AND SAFETY CHKS PRIOR TO LNDG; SHE DID HAVE TIME -- ESPECIALLY BEING FAIRLY ALONE AT BACK AND DARKNESS OF ACFT. WALLET WAS NOT OUT AND VISIBLE. IT WAS IN COMPARTMENT IN BAG; ON SEAT. WE WERE ALSO DEALING WITH 2 OTHER VERY NASTY IRATE PAX WHO CAUSED A RUCKUS. SO WE WERE DISTR BY THEM ON THE FLT ATTENDANT CALLS.