Flashback: The two British men, a Slovak, a Filipino and
a
Chinese national were arrested in September, 2013, in Phuket.
This photo was
taken just before they were handed over to US
authorities for extradition to
New York in November of that year.
(Photo by Wasssayos Ngamkham)
NEW YORK - A former Phuket resident involved in an
international plot to peddle methamphetamines bought from
North Korea pleaded
guilty Thursday to conspiring to import
the drugs from Thailand to America.
Scott Stammers, 46, was arrested with four other
foreigners
in September, 2013, as they prepared to ship the drugs out of
Thailand by boat. They were formally extradited in November
of that year.
Stammers pleaded guilty to conspiring to import 100
kilogrammes
of pure North Korean methamphetamines from Thailand into
the United
States, US prosecutors said.
He faces 10 years to life in prison when sentenced at a future
date by a US judge. Three of the other defendants pleaded guilty
earlier this month.
They were Lim Ye Tiong Tan, 53, a Chinese citizen; Filipino
Kelly Allan Reyes Peralta, 41, and long-time Phuket resident
Alexander Lnu, 43, a Slovak aka Alexander Checov,
aka Alexander Semencov. Lun was allegedly "sergeant at arms"
of the Outlaw Motorcycle Club (OMC) on the island.
The fifth man accused of involvement in the drug scheme,
32-year-old Philip Shackels, also British, is scheduled to go
on trial in New York on Sept 21.
Manhattan US attorney Preet Bharara thanked authorities in
Liberia, Romania and Thailand for assisting with the
US investigation.
"Stammers' scheme ended not with the North Korean methamphetamine
flooding American streets as he had intended, but rather with
a guilty plea in a Manhattan federal court," he said in a statement.
Defendants Ye and Peralta belonged to a criminal gang, which
claimed to have stockpiled one tonne of North Korean
methamphetamines in the Philippines for storage,
court documents say.
Lnu was the Thailand contact for the gang, arranging housing,
transportation and smuggling methods into and out of Phuket.
The gang was exposed when Lnu made a deal to hire Joseph
Manuel "Rambo" Hunter, 48, an American who had served
in the US military as a sniper instructor. Hunter and his
Filipino girlfriend ran drug operations from a house in
Kathu district.
Hunter, who was arrested at the same time as the drug gang,
pled guilty last February to charges of conspiring to murder.
He was convicted of running a gang of military-trained snipers
who were to carry out contract killings for two Colombian
drug cartels.
The catch was that the "leaders" of both cartels who met
Hunter were informants for the US Drug Enforcement
Administration.
Below: Joseph "Rambo" Hunter was arrested in Phuket in
September, 2013, by a team from the Narcotics Suppression
Bureau. (Photo by Apichit Jinakul)
News,General,Bangkok Post, 28 August 2015.
In my viewpoint, addictive substance is very severe criminal for
the world ,it make people out of function for every day work or
ending with immediately dead. So it must be solve and prevent
to get rid of it as much as possible.
Thanks for the cooperation of the Thai police and the US to
arrest and jailed them for their guilty.
Hope all people will have consciousness and think carefully
not to use addictive substance to solve the problem because
it create more problem to that person and more criminal to the
world.
Sincerely Yours.
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