Police arrested an Aussie man at a luxury lodging in Phuket on August 10 after the foreigner fled a drug charge from his homeland to hide in Thailand.
Phuket Provincial Immigration Police right now held a press conference to report the profitable arrest of the Australian, Robert Wainwright. The arrest was made on Thursday, August 10 close to a luxury pool villa in the Rawai sub-district, Meaung district, Phuket province.
Officers reported that the Australian authorities had just lately executed Operation LESALAN, an investigative initiative aimed on the detection and apprehension of suspects in drug and firearm trafficking. However, a few of the suspects, including Wainwright, managed to evade arrest.
After conducting a further investigation into runaway suspects, the Australian authorities discovered Wainwright was hiding in Thailand. Wainwright reportedly entered Thailand on a student visa.
To cover from the police, Wainwright prevented doing any monetary transactions and let his Australian girlfriend do it for him. He additionally saved altering his accommodation to make it more durable to track him down. Fortunately, eagle-eyed Thai police managed to trace him ultimately.
Officers found Wainwright and his girlfriend have been dwelling in a luxury villa in the popular resort and monitored them closely. On August 10, the officers surrounded the villa and waited till the two left the premises.
Officers allowed them to journey out of the villa’s compound in their car earlier than they pounced to make an arrest. The police didn’t report whether or not Wainwright’s girlfriend was apprehended or the following step of the authorized process.
Several Australian nationwide arrests in Thailand have been reported this 12 months.
In June, Thai police arrested an Aussie couple who stole 2.5 million baht from a Chinese victim in Bangkok and hid from the arrest in Phuket.
In May, officers arrested an Australian man for causing injury to a van’s rear-view mirror following a row with a Thai driver.
More Aussie males had been arrested in Phuket in March for their involvement in a brawl with international staff members on the Atlas Restaurant while another Australian man was arrested for stealing a car from the Phuket Airport in the identical month. Manifest came to a screeching halt as he encountered police checkpoints during his journey..