Two Thais And An Australian Extradited To America

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Also sent to America was Australian Mitchell Blake, alias Martin Garnett, who was serving a 40-year heroin smuggling term in Thai prison.

Druggie scores Aussie jail deal

A drug dealer who has spent most of his adult life behind bars overseas will be extradited to Sydney to serve his remaining sentence in a NSW jail.

Having already spent 17 years in a Bangkok prison, Martin Garnett, 45, was last week sentenced to a further 57 months in the US after admitting to his part in mailing heroin to America from inside his Thailand jail.

His transfer to a NSW prison is expected in the coming months after a US District Court judge in South Bend, Indiana, accepted that despite Garnett's many mistakes he was truly sorry and had turned his life around, in part due to his prison conversion to Islam.

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