Christopher Neil sentenced to 39 months in prison for abducting and molesting a 14-year-old boy

Thai court has sentenced a Canadian man to 39 months in prison for abducting and molesting a 14-year-old boy and posting pornographic pictures on the internet.
Christopher Neil, who was tracked down by police after his digitally disguised features were revealed from pictures on the internet, refused to comment after the verdict was handed down on Friday.Feros Mia, Neil's translator, told reporters he had shown no emotion in court and that he was "fine with the verdict".
Neil had pleaded guilty to abusing the 14-year-old boy.
The criminal court in Bangkok, the Thai capital, had handed down a sentence of six years and six months, but the judge halved the sentence, citing Neil's guilty plea.
Neil is set to face another trial in October on a charge of molesting the boy's younger brother, who was nine at the time of the alleged offence.
Neil was arrested in Thailand in October 2007 after computer experts in Germany reconstructed a series of "swirled" internet images and Interpol issued a worldwide public appeal to identify him.Following the Interpol appeal, Neil fled to Thailand from South Korea, where he had been teaching, but was arrested 11 days later by Thai police.

John Paul Jones was rushed to hospital with acute stomach ache was arrested after a doctor found 65 packages containing drugs

Australian tourist who was rushed to hospital with acute stomach ache was arrested after a doctor found 65 packages containing drugs worth more than one million baht in his stomach. The provincial hospital alerted police late on Friday night when an X-ray of John Paul Jones, 51, revealed suspicious objects, shaped like a string of sausages, in his intestine. The objects were later extracted and identified as 800 grammes of hashish. Worapob Sutiwatanaruput, the doctor supervising the case, said Mr Jones experienced severe stomach pain after staying on the tourist island of Samui for five days and was taken to hospital. ''Before the operation, Mr Jones looked nervous and asked whether police would be notified. We found 62 black objects obstructing his small intestine. Three packs had burst,'' Dr Worapob said. The hash was wrapped in condoms and each pack was about two inches long. The operation to extract the packages took two hours and Mr Jones remained in critical condition yesterday, the doctor said. Police said the hash, regarded as a category 5 drug, was not produced in Thailand. The drug was likely to have been made in India or Pakistan and is popular among tourists who take part in the full moon parties on Koh Phangan, an island close to Samui. It is sold at 1,500-2,000 baht a gramme. Police said Mr Jones would be charged and detained for interrogation. Provincial governor Vinai Buapradit suspected Mr Jones swallowed the drugs when he was overseas so he could pass through drug detectors and sniffer dogs at airports and at the pier on Samui where boats leave for Koh Phangan. Pinyo Thongchai, the deputy chief of the Department of Special Investigation, said trans-national criminal groups were rampant on Koh Samui. As well as the Bandidos motorcycle gang, which recently faced a crackdown by authorities, there were also international mafia gangs doing illegal businesses in drugs, land and property deals and extorting money from foreign businessmen. In June last year police on Koh Samui arrested Frenchman Pittet Pasca Maorica, 53, who was also admitted to Samui International Hospital after suffering from stomach pain. Doctors found one kilogramme of heroin in his stomach.

Scott James Morcomb arrested in Bangkok for smuggling aromatherapy candles filled with cocaine to Australia.

An American man has been arrested in Bangkok for smuggling aromatherapy candles filled with cocaine to Australia.Police say 39-year-old Scott James Morcomb, from New Jersey, was arrested at his home, where he was found with two kilograms of marijuana.Morcomb is accused of smuggling cocaine by wrapping 10 to 20 grams of the drug inside aromatherapy candles and shipping them to Australia. Police believe he made at least 10 such shipments.
He has been charged with drugs possession and trafficking.