American and Australian implicated in 2015 Pattaya murder arrested again on international drugs warrant

[Just Weird]

1 hour ago, Lupatria said:

Good to know that no Thai gave them a helping hand.

Apart from the Thai who was arrested for giving them a helping hand.

[Media1]

11 hours ago, steven100 said:

Lock em up ....   good job BIB   !!  

Lol

[sambum]

2 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Oh, jolly good, first class, eh?

I fail to see what a jolly good first class tour has got to do with drugs arrests

[Just Weird]

Just now, sambum said:

I fail to see what a jolly good first class tour has got to do with drugs arrests

Me too. So tell him, not me, I wasn't on the 1st class tour, with lunch.

[seancbk]

3 hours ago, car720 said:

The age of a woman has got nothing to do with it.

It depends if she can cook or not.

 

If she can cook meth maybe.

[sambum]

28 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Me too. So tell him, not me, I wasn't on the 1st class tour, with lunch.

If you were so bemused, why didn't you ASK him? I don't like telling people what to do, although I do make exceptions from time to time!

[gk10002000]

I mean, the guy got off the murder charge, got a 2 year sentence, and then stayed/returned to Thailand?  The guy likes risks I guess.   Or he has all his assets tied up in Thailand so he has to risk staying/returning there.  The experience and thought of any more Thai jail or prison time would have been strong motivation to say bye bye and leave

[striderman]

1 hour ago, sambum said:

I fail to see what a jolly good first class tour has got to do with drugs arrests

read the last line of the opening post

[KBsinter]

I would dearly like to know where the 30ml in assets ends up.........lol

[William T]

"Tyler Gerrard was charged two years ago in the abduction and murder of Wayne Schneider. Murder charges were dismissed by the court but he was sentenced to two years jail for playing a part in the unlawful detention of Schneider.

 

He was released from custody after about a year in December 2016 and then rearrested on other matters by Bang Lamung police."

 

So he was found guilty of taking part in the kidnapping of Wayne Schneider which led to his murder but is only sentenced to 2 years..

 

A girl I know was sentenced to 2 years in prison for having 1 gram of Ya ice. She has now been in 18 months.. No getting out after 1 year. 

[sambum]

6 minutes ago, striderman said:

read the last line of the opening post

Opening Post (Post 1) :-  Thaivisa understands Cook and his wife also operated Jolly's restaurant, bar and massage shop located in Soi Buakhao, Pattaya.

 

First reply:-  "Give them enough rope..."

 

Actual post:-  Thaivisa understands Cook and his wife also operated Jolly's restaurant, bar and massage shop located in Soi Buakhao, Pattaya.

 

??? I still don't see what either that has got to do with a jolly good first class tour and lunch on a warship!

Edited December 12, 2017 by sambum

[farcanell]

2 hours ago, sambum said:

Sorry, but can you not read?

 

"After Cook allegedly bought the drug from a Chinese supplier in international waters on June 22, 2015, he encountered a Thai patrol ship on the return journey and dumped some of the drugs into the sea, Weerapong said. 

Later that day, four sacks holding 50.45 kilograms of the drug, washed ashore." 

I’m sure wombat can read just fine.... and not understanding is understandable.

 

how do they know he dumped the drugs overboard.... how do they know, (if he did,) that those drugs were his.... they could have been the four sacks I lost

[sambum]

9 minutes ago, farcanell said:

I’m sure wombat can read just fine.... and not understanding is understandable.

 

how do they know he dumped the drugs overboard.... how do they know, (if he did,) that those drugs were his.... they could have been the four sacks I lost

Exact quote from Wombat:-

 

"'crystal methamphetamine was found washed ashore'. i don't understand?"

 

What's NOT to understand?  

 

I'm not laying the blame at anyone's door, and I agree with your logic about who the drugs did or did not belong to, but maybe wombat doesn't understand why the bags didn't sink, or why the contents didn't evaporate?

[webfact]

Couple arrested over alleged bid to smuggle huge batch of crystal meth

By Suriya Patathayo 
The Nation

 

 

Police have arrested an Australian man – believed to be a member of the Hells Angels gang in Pattaya – and his Thai female accomplice over an alleged attempt to smuggle a large batch of crystal methamphetamine into Thailand.

Assets worth Bt30 million have been seized from the couple, senior police told a press conference in Bangkok on Tuesday. 

 

Luke Joshua Cook, 34, and Kanyarat Wechapitak, 40, were arrested at Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Sunday. 

 

 

Following their detention, police raided nine properties in Pattaya and Bangkok and seized assets worth Bt30 million, including five luxury cars and motorcycles, cash and three properties in Pattaya.

 

A third suspect, American Tyler Joseph Fulton Sheen Gerard, 23, was previously sentenced to two years in jail over his involvement in the abduction and murder of Australian national Wayne Schneider, 37, in December 2015, police said. 

 

Cook was last year sentenced to three months in jail, which was suspended for two years, for helping Australian kick-boxer and businessman Antonio Bagnato flee Thailand to Cambodia after he murdered Schneider.

 

This drug case against Cook stems from the discovery of 50.45 kilograms of methamphetamine which was allegedly part of a batch that washed ashore in Rayong's Mae Rampeung Beach on June 22, 2015, said Pol Lt-General Weerapong Cheunpakdee, director of the centre for suppression of trans-national crime and illegal entry. 

 

 

A police investigation led to Cook and Kanyarat who operated a boat sales and rental business under Global Marine Solution Co, Weerapong said.

 

Police alleged that Schneider, who was looking for a business investment in Pattaya in 2015, had entrusted Cook with $10 million to buy and transport 500 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine to be stored in Thailand pending transport to Australia. 

 

After Cook allegedly bought the drug from a Chinese supplier in international waters on June 22, 2015, he encountered a Thai patrol ship on the return journey and dumped some of the drugs into the sea, Weerapong said. 

 

Later that day, four sacks holding 50.45 kilograms of the drug, washed ashore. 

 

After gathering evidence against Cook, police were granted a court-issued arrest warrant for Cook on a charge of drug smuggling. 

 

Weeapong said Schneider allegedly demanded that Cook repay the money after the drugs were lost. However, he was later abducted and killed. 

 

Police found that Cook, Kanyarat and Gerard were allegedly involved in a transnational drug trafficking and other crimes, Weerapong said.

 

The arrest of Cook and Kanyarat followed the arrest last week of three Australians and a Canadian, also believed to be Hells Angels members, aged between 32 and 42. Guns, ammunition, knives, an Audi sports car and a Ford GT 315 car were seized after their arrest in Pattaya. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30333775

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-12-13

[Get Real]

Looks like another one that misses free lodging and food for a couple of years. Take care, dude!

[trogers]

Such a business model was adopted since the property market in Pattaya tanked 5-6 years ago?

[tryasimight]

7 hours ago, sambum said:

Opening Post (Post 1) :-  Thaivisa understands Cook and his wife also operated Jolly's restaurant, bar and massage shop located in Soi Buakhao, Pattaya.

 

First reply:-  "Give them enough rope..."

 

Actual post:-  Thaivisa understands Cook and his wife also operated Jolly's restaurant, bar and massage shop located in Soi Buakhao, Pattaya.

 

??? I still don't see what either that has got to do with a jolly good first class tour and lunch on a warship!

Maybe they catered the lunch on board? 

[tryasimight]

21 hours ago, missoura said:

National security threat?

If you understood the damage this particular drug causes in rural Australia then it may go some way to helping you understood it is a threat to both Thai and oz national security. 

[mikiea]

23 hours ago, NanLaew said:

Give them enough rope...

i love the ...wha... who me ? look on his mug .....

[Just Weird]

10 hours ago, sambum said:

If you were so bemused, why didn't you ASK him? I don't like telling people what to do, although I do make exceptions from time to time!

You seem to be confused, I wasn't bemused so what would you expect me to ASK him?  I was making a comment on his post, that's all.  His alleged "first class tour and lunch" was of no other interest to me.

Edited December 13, 2017 by Just Weird

[kcpattaya]

Good clean-up effort!
Get rid of these scumbags!

[catman20]

2 hours ago, tryasimight said:

I and many others like Pattaya. If you get out of the red light districts it's quite a nice place. 

with some of the most expensive properties in Thailand.

[Lacessit]

12 hours ago, wombat said:

 'crystal methamphetamine was found washed ashore'

 

i don't understand?

It floats. Most organic compounds do.

[kcpattaya]

Hopefully they get what they deserve...
Greed drives them into KARMA!
 

[The Teacher]

22 hours ago, ezzra said:

What boggle the minds apart from the fact that Pattaya has become the cesspool of the world is that those criminals, arrested, tried and sent to jail are not deported and they, and their ilk are free to come and go into this country at will while another guy, who has worked with no WP or god forbid, over stayed their visa, are deported and blacklisted,

so i ask you, is someone sleeping on the job here or what?....    

They have never been awake to start with 

[Ulic]

I am thinking that the Hell's Angels days in Thailand will shortly come

to an end unless the payoffs are more than substantial. 

[Rimmer]

Some off topic posts leading to bickering and flaming have been removed

[marko kok prong]

so the American got 2 years for being an accesory to murder,the other guy get's 3 months suspended for helping a murderer flee the country ?  Man there must have been some big bulging brown envelopes for these pathetic excuses of justice.

[Media1]

Dumping drugs or carrying is all here say. They have no evidence. There acting on there Thai imaginations. A good lawyer and goodbye Thailand

[GOLDBUGGY]

On 12/12/2017 at 10:26 AM, ezzra said:

What boggle the minds apart from the fact that Pattaya has become the cesspool of the world is that those criminals, arrested, tried and sent to jail are not deported and they, and their ilk are free to come and go into this country at will while another guy, who has worked with no WP or god forbid, over stayed their visa, are deported and blacklisted,

so i ask you, is someone sleeping on the job here or what?....    

Well if he was working on a job at the beach without a w.p. and was smoking a cigarette at the time of his arrest, he would have to spend up to a year in Prison first, before they deported him for life. 

 

Does kinda seem lop sided a bit, don't it?