"Clipping the Wings of the Angels" - eight Hells Angels arrested in Pattaya as "threat to Thai society"

[snoop1130]

"Clipping the Wings of the Angels" - eight Hells Angels arrested in Pattaya as "threat to Thai society"

 

 

A huge police operation swooped on five locations in the Pattaya area and arrested eight Hells Angels members.

 

They all face at least expulsion from Thailand and possibly a lot more after police claimed they were a threat to Thai society and discovered a cache of guns, knives and ammunition. 

 

Two cars were also seized in the raids at housing estates across Bang Lamung and Nong Prue.

 

The operation was mounted by the tourist police headed by chief Surachet Hakpan who has been tasked by the Thai government to clear up the foreign trash masquerading as tourists.

 

Surachet's men were assisted by 191 special branch, drugs suppression officers and cops from the Pattaya and Nong Prue stations who all appeared at tourist police HQ yesterday to announce the news.

 

 

Three of the men arrested were Australians and one Canadian. The nationalities of the other four were not reported yet. 

 

Police recovered 9mm guns, BB guns, a host of knives and ammunition. An Audi sports car and a Ford G-T were also seized - the cars and all the individuals will be DNA tested to prove their link to crime.

 

Police say the arrests are over money laundering, extortion and human trafficking. Penalties if those offences are proven could be severe.

 

But so far the eight individuals have had their permission to be in Thailand revoked with their visas removed. 

 

The operation was given the title in Thai of "Clipping the Wings of the Angels". 

 

Source: https://www.dailynews.co.th/crime/614449

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-12-6

[DiscoDan]

Good to see, keep up the good work !

[champers]

2 cars siezed but no motorbikes. What sort of Hells Angels are these?

[Andrew Dwyer]

2 cars siezed but no motorbikes. What sort of Hells Angels are these?

These are the new environmentally friendly Hells Angels !

They were doing car share !!

[anon789561]

Good stuff. Starting to like the BIB nowadays

[NanLaew]

But funnily enough, no actual Hell's Angels were presented at this photo-op, not even their pictures.

[Kaoboi Bebobp]

So what you're saying is, this was for the Big Show. The military junta will smile, rejoice and pass on their good wishes to the RTP for doing their jobs but the club members "arrested" will be back on their Harleys tomorrow. The money will keep flowing and everybody will be happy. 

[observer90210]

Good work !!....get rid of these criminal bullies from the streets and the roads !

[Gregorio1]

Never realized the Hells Angels gave plaques!  Seems a little 'Rotary Club' for one of the most feared outlaw biker clubs in the world doesn't it?  

[George Bowman]

[Chang_paarp]

Getting a mention in the press in Oz too.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-07/thai-police-arrest-three-australian-hells-angels-bikers/9234660

[dinsdale]

10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Three of the men arrested were Australians and one Canadian. The nationalities of the other four were not reported yet.

What's the bet they're Thai.

[spiroinusa1]

Hells Angels are not your typical invites to the family picnic. Usually have no work record so how they support themseleves  is anyone's guess. Crime, on the dole, mummy sends them money?

[chrissables]

6 hours ago, observer90210 said:

Good work !!....get rid of these criminal bullies from the streets and the roads !

Have you ever met them or seen them committing  criminal acts, bullying or even on the road?

[overherebc]

They mention Ford GT.

Are they talking about one of these?

Used to be a blue and white one going around Patts a few years ago.

[samsensam]

11 hours ago, champers said:

2 cars siezed but no motorbikes. What sort of Hells Angels are these?

 

ones with nice clean clothes too

[Deli]

Threat to Thai Society:

Tuk Tuk drivers, tailor touts, taxi drivers not using the meter, many landlords, fishing industry, mini van drivers, teachers beating pupils...

 

[sanemax]

6 minutes ago, chrissables said:

Have you ever met them or seen them committing  criminal acts, bullying or even on the road?

I really do not think that what one person has seen has any significance 

[mok199]

those clothes must be hot in this heat,i see these dudes with their datons(boots) and the leathers and layered with even more patches ...I have yet to see an angel in flip flops...

[robsamui]

Somebody is having a laff, here. 

 

Could this be the first-ever arrest with no police gleefully pointing at a bunch of people with fuzzed-out faces.? That's the first suspicious give-away.

 

Then there are no bikes impounded at all. Then a pile of what looks Hell's Angels souvenirs, memorabilia and recruiting leaflets. as seen at county showgrounds everywhere. And has anyone ever seen a neater, cleaner, plastic (!!!) vest?

 

This is a total put-up job - how do they think anyone can believe this?

[NextStationBangkok]

Sometimes i see they roam openly in the Harley Davidson bikes.

 

Police knows all, but do nothing. Probably pressure from embassy ?

[wombat]

11 hours ago, champers said:

2 cars siezed but no motorbikes. What sort of Hells Angels are these?

'NIkey Bikies' i believe is the term

 

[Crash999]

21 minutes ago, overherebc said:

They mention Ford GT.

Are they talking about one of these?

Used to be a blue and white one going around Patts a few years ago.

From the Thai article it mentions a Ford GT 315 which is probably GT 350, a Mustang. 

[wvavin]

The photo taking session is more important than anything else. Really pathetic!

[overherebc]

6 minutes ago, Crash999 said:

From the Thai article it mentions a Ford GT 315 which is probably GT 350, a Mustang. 

Like this then.

[ezzra]

The question that everyone should ask is What took them so long?

obviously those guys are up to no good, they neither "tourists" nor 

"business men" nor choir boys, everybody in the whole world know

what Hell's angels are all about and yet, they have been here for so

many years and only now someone woke up to and saw those 

patched leather jackets?.....

[isaanbanhou]

send em back where they came from after they serve whatever sentence they are given

[Rimmer]

Some off topic posts have been removed

[sammieuk1]

The guy second left looks like he did the foreign trash masquerading as tourists clean-up single handed .

[Saan]

Many of Australian bikies are Middle East. There drug development was formed when Lebanese criminals were immigrated to Australia in the 70s.

Recently other Australian bikies were tossed out of Bali, not getting past the airport.