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Alleged criminal Joseph Hunter on Phuket after Wednesday's raid

American 'Drug Lord' Arrested on Phuket Takes Charter Flight to US

Friday, September 27, 2013
PHUKET: An American arrested on Phuket this week and described as a ''leading drug lord'' across Asia has left on a charter plane for the US, police in Bangkok said today.

Joseph Manuel Hunter, 48, was handed to agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport, deputy national police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang told Associated Press.

Another five men - two Britons, a Slovak, a Filipino and a Tawainese - are being held by police in Thailand for now.

The six were flown to Bangkok from Phuket after a raid on Wednesday that was kept a closely-guarded secret. Even Phuket police and Phuket's administrators were not informed, according to the Khaosod newspaper.

Hunter rented a house on Phuket and travelled widely around the region. His alleged accomplices will be extradited as soon as court proceedings are complete.

The names of the other alleged gang members, who are all said to have had military training, have yet to be released.

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two Britons, a Slovak, a Filipino and a Tawainese

Extradition would mean that they have committed crimes in their home countries and have arrest warrants out for them. I'm not asking, but just wondering how they were allowed into this country in the first place. Thai immigration surely has a criminal database.

Posted by Pete on September 27, 2013 18:01

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If the allegations are true, I wonder how many other criminal organisations, or international groups feeding illegal substances to the region, are based on Phuket. Time for house-to-house searches.

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Time for house-to-house searches of whom, Ed? Where would you start with that?

Posted by Sudo Nim on September 27, 2013 18:22

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Your place, of course.

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Sure that he keft BKK and didn't sneak out the airport like the other German guy some months ago. Can't remember his name. Ed, did this one ever get caught ?

Posted by Resident on September 28, 2013 06:32

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Choose between morning coffee or morning sex?

Thank God we live in a world where man can have both!

Cheers

Posted by Concerned & Quenched on September 28, 2013 08:51

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@Concerned & Quenched: The coffee are Much more Better then Sex!!!! sex is not on a need , Coffee is daily !! Enjoy your Day

Posted by Henry on September 28, 2013 11:28

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If I wanted to have coffee whilst having sex with my girlfriend I think rightly so she would be insulted.

Posted by Fiesty Farang on September 28, 2013 19:02


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