Thai police arrest Christopher Paul Neil, whom they accused of sexual abuse and who went on trial earlier this year.

Interpol — the global police network based in Lyon, France — received from Norwegian police a cache of 800 disturbing images, roughly 100 of which depicted a man sexually abusing at least three boys aged between 6 and 10 in 2000 or 2001. While a luggage tag in the photos suggested they may have been taken in Southeast Asia, the trail grew cold, and for two years investigators were unable to decipher the man's identity or whereabouts — even though he hadn't bothered to conceal his face in the images. So this week, Interpol's child exploitation unit did an unusual thing: they turned to the worldwide public for help.The media broadcast Interpol's...

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Dirk Michelmann will face extradition back to Germany

Officers arrested fugitive Dirk Michelmann aged 40 years from Germany after receiving information from the German Embassy in Bangkok. Michelmann had escaped from Germany after an attempt to arrest him for 62 counts of fraud and credit card scams in the country. Word was out that he had made his way to Thailand and Pattaya in particular. So that was when Pattaya Police took action. They finally found the conman at a bar in Soi 6 on Second Road. When questioned he told officers that he had been in Pattaya since last January. He will now be taken to the German Embassy in Bangkok where he will face extradition back to Germany to face the charges...

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Robbed of around 1 million baht whilst staying at the Denmark Hotel in Soi White House, Jomtien

fact that he had been robbed of around 1 million baht whilst staying at the Denmark Hotel in Soi White House, Jomtien. The incident happened on the 24th April while he went out to eat. Apparently, the receptionist gave the key to a strange woman without even checking for identification to go to this man’s room. In the room was his laptop computer and around 35 to 40 thousand dollars in US and Vietnamese currency. The stranger took all of the goods and left. The victim believes that the cleaning lady and reception have a part in planning the whole thing. How else would the suspect thief know what room key to ask for and have knowledge of what...

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House in Huay Yai Full of Drugs

After receiving a tip off from undercover informants, Pattaya Police organized an investigation operation to visit Huay Yai on the morning of the 2nd May. Officers went to a house with a search warrant to surprise 13 people living there as a family. On searching the property they found 1,300 tablets of yaba, grams of meth, marijuana plus an arsenal of guns and ammunition. Together with a number of cars and motorbikes taken away as evidence, the police reckon the value to be over 5 million baht. The 9 men and 4 women confessed to operating a drug dealing business from the house. They were all taken away for further questioni...

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Canadian Christopher Neil, 32, was picked up in northern Thailand just ten days after his photo was published on the internet.

Interpol is turning to the internet for a second time to try to catch a suspected paedophile. It has been attempting to track down a man for the past two years after Norwegian police discovered computer photographs of him apparently sexually abusing young boys. The nationality of the man is not known. But Interpol's Anders Persson is hoping another worldwide internet appeal will have the same success as the last one."We came across these photos in Spring 2006, when the Norwegian national police sent these photos to us," he said. "They were found in a seized computer in an investigation in Norway, and they asked Interpol to support them in the identification of this man. So we engaged our international network of 50 police investigators from 20 different countries to help us and collect more...

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Police in Thailand and Cambodia said they had received information from Interpol.

He is white, has thinning gray hair and showed up in Internet photos having sex with young Southeast Asian boys. Now, Interpol hopes, police may soon catch the elusive suspected pedophile they have code-named «Mr. IDent.The international police agency launched a worldwide public appeal for information Tuesday to help identify the suspect, whose identity, nationality and whereabouts are unknown. It was only the second time that Interpol has launched such a public manhunt for a suspected pedophile. The first time, last October, rapidly led to an arrest.Interpol released six photos of the latest suspect. Thought to have been taken in 2000 and 2001, they showed a man who appeared to be in his late 40s or early 50s. Interpol said it has other images, which it did not release, allegedly showing...

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Royal Thai Army has formed a new Thahan Phran (or Ranger) regiment for special duties in Chiang Saen, Chiang Khong and Wiang Kaen districts

Royal Thai Army has formed a new Thahan Phran (or Ranger) regiment for special duties in Chiang Saen, Chiang Khong and Wiang Kaen districts along the Mekong River in Chiang Rai province. The regiment has a skull and dagger insignia, and is responsible for curbing human trafficking and other illegal movements across the Mekong into Thailand from northwestern Laos.Several different companies from the regiment, which is headquartered at Pakthongchai near Khorat, have been deployed to the Mekong districts since 2005. These include 945 Company, which was based at Vieng Mok in December 2005; 963 Company, which was based at Doi Pha Tang in 2005-06;...

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Viktor Bout was arrested earlier this year in Thailand. The United States is seeking his extradition on charges that could result in a life sentence

Prosecutors announced an indictment Tuesday against a reputed Russian arms smuggler who they say tried to sell weapons to a U.S.-designated terrorist organization with the goal of killing Americans.The indictment charges Viktor Bout with four terrorism offenses, including conspiring to kill Americans, conspiring to kill U.S. officers or employees, conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to acquire and use an anti-aircraft missile.The charges were based in part on a covertly recorded meeting in Thailand on March 6. Prosecutors say Bout said he understood that an organization of Colombia's leftist rebels wanted to use weapons against Americans in the country.Bout was accused of saying the group's fight against the United States was also his fight because the U.S....

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man had been stabbed over fifty times

A 64-year-old Finnish man was stabbed to death in Pattaya, Thailand, late on Monday night. As reported in the local daily Pattaya Daily News, the man was found assaulted in his room in the Grand Condotel Hotel near Jomtien Beach. The man had been stabbed over fifty times. He died of his injuries in hospital. According to the Finnish late-edition tabloid Ilta-Sanomat, the Thai police suspect two local Thai men of the attack. The men had forced their way into the Finnish man’s room. According to the Pattaya Daily News, the man had managed to drag himself onto his balcony to call for help. As a leg amputee, the man suffered from restricted mobility.A woman living in the next-door room heard the man’s cries and called for assistance.There were plenty of signs of struggle in the man's room, and...

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