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US man held in Asok after permission to stay revoked

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Thai Immigration officers have detained an American man identified by authorities, only as Mr Peter at a condominium in Bangkok's Asok area after cancelling his permission to remain in Thailand.

The US authorities had asked Thailand to locate the man, who is wanted for allegedly breaching pre-trial release conditions in a firearms case. He is expected to be deported to face legal proceedings in the United States.

US request led to Bangkok search

The operation was carried out by Immigration Bureau Investigation Division 1 officers working with the US Embassy's overseas criminal investigations unit.

According to Immigration police, US authorities said Peter had allegedly violated conditions imposed while he was awaiting trial in a weapons-related case.

They also said he had previously been arrested in several criminal cases, including possession of and assault with a firearm, credit-card fraud, assaulting a spouse, unlawful detention, and intimidation linked to serious criminal activity.

Thai officers found that he was still living in the country and that his existing permission to stay had not yet expired.

However, Immigration police said he was considered a threat to security and submitted the case to the commander of the Immigration Bureau Investigation Division for his permission to remain in Thailand to be revoked under the law.

Detained at Sukhumvit 21 condominium

Investigators later traced Peter to the Asok area, in Soi Sukhumvit 21, Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana district, Bangkok.

Officers went to the condominium, presented him with the notification cancelling his stay permission and took him into custody. He was transferred to Immigration Bureau Investigation Division 3 for detention while officials coordinate his removal from Thailand.

The authorities said they would work with the relevant agencies to send him back to the United States for the American justice process.

The bureau said it would continue its policy of linking international data to block dangerous people from using Thailand as a hiding place.

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26 August 2026


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4 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

They also said he had previously been arrested in several criminal cases, including possession of and assault with a firearm, credit-card fraud, assaulting a spouse, unlawful detention, and intimidation linked to serious criminal activity.

Obviously a 1. class criminal scumbag.

Thailand will be safer now.

4 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

his existing permission to stay had not yet expired.

Well at least kudos for that.

He sounds delightful. I hope he doesn’t buy his way back home.

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And with all these criminal charges pending in his home country, he was able to leave the US, and enter Thailand? Great....

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Gosh. If they did that in the USA, there would be a bunch of purple haired ladies heckling the agents and protesting the despicable arrest. And NGOs filing paperwork to make sure the guy got "due process".

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Two failures, one for the USA authorities letting him out, and two for the Thai authorities for letting him in.

2 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

Obviously a 1. class criminal scumbag.

Thailand will be safer now.

Must be a smoker if a comment on another offender is to be believed 555

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1 hour ago, impulse said:

Gosh. If they did that in the USA, there would be a bunch of purple haired ladies heckling the agents and protesting the despicable arrest. And NGOs filing paperwork to make sure the guy got "due process".

Gosh, not due process?? Oh my good lord, we cannot have due process. My heavens, what is this world coming to, due process is a tool of the devil himself I do declare. Our Dear Leader will get rid of due process once those pesky constitutional rights are done away with!

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2 minutes ago, TimBKK said:

Gosh, not due process?? Oh my good lord, we cannot have due process. My heavens, what is this world coming to, due process is a tool of the devil himself I do declare. Our Dear Leader will get rid of due process once those pesky constitutional rights are done away with!

We're just going to have to agree to disagree there. I'm fundamentally against taxpayer money funding both sides of a court battle fought on behalf of someone that has no right to be in the country in the first place. Those costs can run into the tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars, with no way to recoup that money.

I like Thailand's way better...

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1 hour ago, Thingamabob said:

Two failures, one for the USA authorities letting him out, and two for the Thai authorities for letting him in.

I don't see the mistake by Thailand for letting him in, unless he was on a wanted notice from Interpol.

Does he have to pay for his board and lodging, and his flight home?

Now we see why Thailand wants to speed up the deportation process for certain instances.

I guess he wasn't considered a flight risk initially so his passport wasn't flagged and denied boarding during departure.

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59 minutes ago, stevenl said:

I don't see the mistake by Thailand for letting him in, unless he was on a wanted notice from Interpol.

1 hour ago, stevenl said:

I don't see the mistake by Thailand for letting him in, unless he was on a wanted notice from Interpol.

He was, to quote from the report, arrested in the US on several criminal charges. I agree that, if this information was not placed on an international alert after he fled the USA, the fault lies entirely with the American authorities.

6 hours ago, impulse said:

Gosh. If they did that in the USA, there would be a bunch of purple haired ladies heckling the agents and protesting the despicable arrest. And NGOs filing paperwork to make sure the guy got "due process".

Not for that kind of criminal !!

I wouldn't want to get in a fight with that guy on the right - about 2.5 metres tall!!

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6 hours ago, impulse said:

Gosh. If they did that in the USA, there would be a bunch of purple haired ladies heckling the agents and protesting the despicable arrest. And NGOs filing paperwork to make sure the guy got "due process".


Ridiculous, as usual. If you can't see the differences in this arrest where evidence was presented for bail terms being breached on a serious crime, and with a long list of previous violent crimes, a formal extradition request being made - and the protests that were about masked goons roaming the streets randomly stopping people with no criminal records, no reason for suspicion, then frankly, you're an idiot.

And wha is wrong, exactly, with "due process"? Due process is the only way the rule of law can work.

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1 hour ago, simon43 said:

I wouldn't want to get in a fight with that guy on the right - about 2.5 metres tall!!

ha.. everybody else is about 1.4 meters

Off topic troll post removed @suspectdevice rule 10. You will not post troll messages. Trolling is the act of purposefully antagonizing forum members by posting controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages with the primary intent of provoking other members into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.

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