Five foreigners involved in drug trafficking extradited
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Five accomplices of US drug dealer Joseph Manuel Hunter were extradited to United States on Tuesday where they will face punishment for their crimes.
Escorted by armed police commandos, Britons Philip David Shackels and Scott Alan Stammer, Slovakian Alexander Lnu, Filipino Allan Kelly Perata and Taiwanese Ye Tiong Tan Lim were taken from Bangkok's Khlong Prem Prison to Don Mueang International Airport at 10 on Tuesday morning to board a plane to the US.
The five foreigners were arrested along with their alleged leader Joseph Manuel Hunter – a former US Navy Special Forces officer who allegedly ran one of the world’s biggest drug networks – in Phuket’s Krathu district on September 25.
The Nation
