Drug trafficker who fled UK for Thailand is tracked down by North Yorkshire Police and jailed

[webfact]

Drug trafficker who fled UK for Thailand is tracked down by North Yorkshire Police and jailed

 

Jailed: Fugitive Ross Hemington

 

A convicted drug trafficker who fled to Thailand when he was wanted by police has today been brought home so he can be jailed.

 

Ross Hemington, of Darlington, was tracked down following an investigation by North Yorkshire Police’s Force Intelligence Bureau that spanned two continents.

 

The 33-year-old was part of a drugs gang that imported tens of thousands of pounds of cocaine into the UK from India, hidden in fake designer handbags.

 

North Yorkshire Police led an investigation into the trafficking, which resulted in Hemington and other gang members going to prison in 2011 for importing and possessing class A drugs.

 

After being released from prison, he was arrested again for possessing significant amount of cocaine. In January 2016, he was jailed for four years for possession with intent to supply.

 

Full story: https://northyorkshire.police.uk/news/fugitive-drug-trafficker-jailed/

 

-- NORTH YORKSHIRE POLICE 2020 - 09-17

 

[Keyser Soze666]

Don't tell me he was in Pattaya?

 

I remember a story from about 4 years ago of another Brit who was a big drug trafficker who  had been hiding out in Thailand on some island down near Samui somewhere for quite some time...the police found out his son was going over to visit him from the UK so had him followed from Samui airport straight to his old man's bolthole...wasn't the best idea.

Edited September 17, 2020 by Keyser Soze666

[bangkokfrog]

North Yorkshire Police seem to have no problem tracking down felons who flee overseas. Perhaps Thailand should ask their help in finding Boss?

[clarky cat]

looks very Pattaya

[ronaldo0]

Place is full of them ! 

[off road pat]

3 hours ago, bangkokfrog said:

North Yorkshire Police seem to have no problem tracking down felons who flee overseas. Perhaps Thailand should ask their help in finding Boss?

Hm,...There is a significant difference between police that want to find some criminal and Police that absolutely don't want to find a particular criminal !?!?

[Artisi]

6 hours ago, bangkokfrog said:

North Yorkshire Police seem to have no problem tracking down felons who flee overseas. Perhaps Thailand should ask their help in finding Boss?

You can bet they know exactly where he is, however being asked to do something about it by the BIB would be another story. 

[djayz]

10 hours ago, Keyser Soze666 said:

wasn't the best idea

Hence the need to deal drugs to "make it" in today's world. 

[gravity101]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

hidden in fake designer handbags.

Doesn't seem a very clever place to hide it. Surely inside rhino horns would attract less attention.

[Tongjaw]

9 hours ago, bangkokfrog said:

North Yorkshire Police seem to have no problem tracking down felons who flee overseas. Perhaps Thailand should ask their help in finding Boss?

They didn’t seem to have any problem letting a wanted career criminal travel overseas in the first place either. No doubt the British taxpayers will have to foot the hefty bill for tracking and getting him returned. Just as well the North Yorkshire Police Force Intelligence Bureau had the help of Interpol and the Thai Authorities to find him. 

[Baerboxer]

11 hours ago, Tongjaw said:

They didn’t seem to have any problem letting a wanted career criminal travel overseas in the first place either. No doubt the British taxpayers will have to foot the hefty bill for tracking and getting him returned. Just as well the North Yorkshire Police Force Intelligence Bureau had the help of Interpol and the Thai Authorities to find him. 

 

Yes - a good example of using Interpol correctly and inter police cooperation. 

 

Thailand also had no problem letting him in it seems. 

 

Which all goes to show criminals can leave and enter countries without necessarily being detected.

[Grumpy John]

Any countries police should look at Pattaya before venturing to other locations.   Most likely would solve half their cases in one trip! 

[CGW]

7 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

Which all goes to show criminals can leave and enter countries without necessarily being detected.

? I think those days are over now, your referring to the "good old days" when we had a degree or two of Freedom ???? 

[Artisi]

15 minutes ago, Grumpy John said:

Any countries police should look at Pattaya before venturing to other locations.   Most likely would solve half their cases in one trip! 

Good hide-out location, hide in plain sight as this beats being the only farang living in Nakhon Nowhere

[Jim P]

Hopefully this trash will be blacklisted from Thailand now, good riddance.

[from the home of CC]

16 hours ago, Tongjaw said:

They didn’t seem to have any problem letting a wanted career criminal travel overseas in the first place either. No doubt the British taxpayers will have to foot the hefty bill for tracking and getting him returned. Just as well the North Yorkshire Police Force Intelligence Bureau had the help of Interpol and the Thai Authorities to find him. 

exactly and not the first..

[jimmjam]

1 hour ago, Jim P said:

Hopefully this trash will be blacklisted from Thailand now, good riddance.

Why would he be blacklisted?

He committed the crime in the u.k.

Immigration probably arent even bothered.

 

[baansgr]

On 9/17/2020 at 1:41 PM, clarky cat said:

looks very Pattaya

Fortunately, ain't many left in Patters...far more families now...bar scene has dwindled to a shadow of its former self...plenty kiddie amusement parks, water parks, shopping malls etc....it's actually a nice place to live.