Immigration arrest Cameroonian and Indian nationals on combined 2,700 day overstays

[webfact]

Picture: Naew Na

 

Naew Na reported on the latest arrests achieved by Region 4 immigration in the north east of Thailand as they reported at an IB press conference in Bangkok yesterday.

 

The busts featured large boards describing the arrests in lurid detail.

 

One about a Cameroonian overstaying woman featured a broken heart graphic and the words "she forgot her home".

 

Another featured the arrest of a man wanted on an assault warrant saying he was "from the land of paratha" (an Indian flat bread, notes ASEAN NOW).

 

Naew Na called the first case Mrs Moto though the IB board called her Mrs Mato, 29.

 

She apparently arrived in Thailand in September 2015 on a tourist visa that she extended once then didn't bother with again.

 

She was on overstay of 2,082 days according to the board that also contained information that she was living with her Cameroon husband (a language teacher) in Nakhon Sri Thammarat before being broken hearted and moving to Udon Thani where she lived with some compatriots in Srisuttho sub-district.

 

Picture: Naew Na

 

The Indian man was a Mr Akhilesh, 28 who had come to Thailand in June 2019 but never bothered to extend. He was on overstay of 700+ days, reported Naew Na. 

 

He was also named in a Roi-Et warrant for serious assault.

 

Immigration tried to catch him several times after hearing that he liked to ride his motorcycle to the market in Na Muang sub-district.

 

He always got away until the IB discovered his route and set a trap enabling his capture. 

 

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[RotBenz8888]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

Mr Akhilesh

That's how they caught him. 

[Gandtee]

Why do we have to see the never ending vinyl display boards with posing cops nearby? Only one reason. And that is for a photo op for those who are supposed to get on and do the job which they are paid for. Pathetic time wasting.

[ben2talk]

With 16000 police in the country, each photo takes up only a few bodies - here we see 4 of them posing for a picture, and are supposed to assume they're ALL doing their jobs?

 

Also a sad reminder that the land of smiles don't really make it easy for anyone to gain permanent residence even after 5, 10, 15 years...

[AhFarangJa]

This must be fake news.............Was it not only about a year ago that Big Joke said all overstayers had been found.....

[Asquith Production]

I wonder which one of them owns the print shop.

[internationalism]

so 4 policemen travelled from far away provinces to bangkok press conference to talk about some stupid cases.

Those 2 cases shows how poor work they were doing for so many years.

Cameroonian woman and indian man are very easily identified in the community, because they don't look ethnic thai and don't speak lingo.

They were not Lao, Cambodia or Myanmar citizens speaking perfect thai, because they originated from the border areas where listened daily to thai FM radio, played songs and watched TV soap movies. 

Finding a man with a search warrant for common crimes, not related to visa, is not job of immigration. They should share all info with the local cops, who would find him fast, without multiple failings.