Phuket murder hit suspect dies in Canadian plane crash days after being declared ‘most wanted’

[webfact]

Police in Canada have confirmed that Gene Karl Lahrkamp (centre), wanted for murder in Thailand on foot of an arrest warrant issued by Phuket Provincial Court on February 11th last, died on Saturday, April 30th in a plane crash near Sioux Lookout, a town in Northwestern Ontario. The private Cherokee plane was carrying four people who all died in the crash. It came only four days after Mr Lahrkamp had been listed as Canada’s second most wanted fugitive in the country’s Be on the Lookout (BOLO) programme by officials in Toronto.

 

by James Morris and Son Nguyen

 

From the moment the two hitmen stepped back onto Canadian soil last February after the murder of crime figure Jimmy Sandhu, their fortunes began to unravel. 36-year-old Matthew Dupre sits in custody in Alberta as he fights extradition to Thailand while his alleged partner in the assassination of Mr Sandhu, Gene Karl Lahrkamp has been declared dead in a plane crash last Saturday while on the run as a fugitive. The hitmen found themselves pursued not only by police in Canada and Thailand but also by both rival gangs with links to Sandhu who they mercilessly gunned down at his villa in Phuket on February 4th last. This followed a robust, lightning speed and highly successful police investigation which identified the pair to the world.

 

One of the two murder suspects identified by Thai police over the murder of drug lord Jimmy Sandhu in Phuket on February 4th last died on Saturday in a plane crash near Sioux Lookout in Canada’s Ontario province. The news came just four days after 36-year-old Gene Karl Lahrkamp had been named the second most wanted man in Canada in an appeal to the public to track him down based on a warrant for his arrest issued in Phuket on February 11th last for murder.

 

Join our daily ASEAN NOW Thailand Newsletter - Click to subscribe

 

The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU) of British Columbia in Canada has announced that one of the two suspects wanted in Thailand by the court in Phuket for the murder of drug kingpin Jimmy Sandhu has died while on the run in a plane crash.

 

Full story: https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/05/04/phuket-murderer-dies-in-canadian-plane-crash-gene-karl-lahrkamp/

 

-- © Copyright Thai Examiner 2022-05-05

 

- Pacific Prime offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here.

 

- Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates

[KannikaP]

So happy that the first sentence tells us which is the wanted guy in the photo.    LOL

[flyingtlger]

Karma has no menu. 

You get served what you deserve.......

[CharlieH]

I Wonder if the "hitman" got hit !

Reep what you sow.

[Jerno]

If the RTP were so lightning quick on this how did the murderers get on a plane and out of Thailand unhindered?  Must have been slow lightning. 

[blazes]

The Mounties (or their close cousins) get their man....

[Ralf001]

So now that he is "dead" police and gangs will stop looking for him.

 

Who says criminals are dumb !!

[justaphase]

"This followed a robust, lightning speed and highly successful police investigation which identified the pair to the world."

more like someone just grassed them up straight away

[mvdf]

Once a marked man, always a marked man. Nowhere for fugitives to hide, even in the most remote corners of this planet. It's just a matter of time and GPS coordinates. 

[Captain Monday]

56 minutes ago, blazes said:

The Mounties (or their close cousins) get their man....

Nope, Inexperience and overconfidence got him. A 26 year old pilot in a surely overloaded PA-28 Cherokee in likely icing conditions. A lot can go wrong 

[ezzra]

Either its true or its the most elaborated disappearing and faking death in history...

[RichardColeman]

Think the guy got 'silenced' before he could talk. More to this.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

This followed a robust, lightning speed and highly successful police investigation which identified the pair to the world.

Who at "lightening speed" first said the pair were still in Thailand, but then had to admit they'd got out of the country.

[bendejo]

Look up the location on map.

Gotta wonder where they were going, was it supposed to be a drop-off where they would live like Grizzly Adams for a year before starting a new life with new IDs?  And someone altered that plan for them.  Or maybe not. Sounds like they had quite a few enemies.

 

 

[pjmorton]

He murdered an arrest warrant?

[Tropicalevo]

1 hour ago, mvdf said:

Once a marked man, always a marked man. Nowhere for fugitives to hide, even in the most remote corners of this planet. It's just a matter of time and GPS coordinates. 

'Boss' is managing to hide quite well. 10 years and counting.

[RandiRona]

How convenient!! Case closed.

[MrJ2U]

The person who he murdered was a renowned drug trafficker.

 

He should be commended for doing the Phuket Police departments job.

[Canadian Snowbird]

The flights started on Canada's west coast with 4 passengers plus gear in a small 4 seater Cherokee airplane with stops every 7 to 8 hours. Dryden to Marathon in NW Ontario is a 6 to 7 hour drive and similar time in a small plane. Its pretty rugged country in NW Ontario and the weather can be very unpredictable this time of year. I've hit snow driving the Trans Canada Hwy in that area in late April before. Some comments here say "how convenient", but it's true. It's all over the news here. Pretty hard to fake dna recovered from the wreckage. I guess you could say justice has been served ... karma wins again.

[spidermike007]

41 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

'Boss' is managing to hide quite well. 10 years and counting.

Easy to hide when you are not really bring pursued, and Interpol is ignoring Thailand's request, due to a lack of respect, and the knowledge that he is above the law here anyway. 

[TKDfella]

3 hours ago, CharlieH said:

I Wonder if the "hitman" got hit !

Reep what you sow.

Can't remember where I heard it...first rule of assassination, kill the assassin.????

[Tropposurfer]

Kharma: If we deal in death and misery, the wheel will return again and again.

[kcpattaya]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Gene Karl Lahrkamp (centre)

Thanks for explaining that...

[frankie machine]

3 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

So now that he is "dead" police and gangs will stop looking for him.

 

Who says criminals are dumb !!

i was thinking the same thing

[jossthaifarang]

1 hour ago, Tropicalevo said:

'Boss' is managing to hide quite well. 10 years and counting.

Hidding in plain site in Austria, according to reports...

[kcpattaya]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Gene Karl Lahrkamp died on Saturday, April 30th in a plane crash

Says who? 
I doubt everything that is related to "police matters"...
The conspiracy theory in this case is that Gene was never in that plane at all.

[Purdey]

Yes, Boss is still free so lightning can’t strike twice.

[SomchaiCNX]

2 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

'Boss' is managing to hide quite well. 10 years and counting.

He is even not hiding.

 

[ThaiFelix]

4 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

So now that he is "dead" police and gangs will stop looking for him.

 

Who says criminals are dumb !!

Burned beyond recognition maybe??

[David T Pike]

Coincidence? I think not. Sad the rival gang had to go "scorched earth" on the other plane passengers...