Yesterday, police arrested four foreign men in Bangkok thought to be members of the Pattaya chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, charged them with several crimes, and plan to deport and blacklist them from Thailand.
Acting deputy commissioner of tourist police Pol. Maj. Gen. Surachet Hakpal, announced that they ran raids on five expensive homes in Bang Lamung district.
Though police were on the hunt for eight foreign men thought to belong to the gang, they found only four — three Australians and a Canadian. Their names have not been released, but the men are aged from 32-42. At the properties, officers found an Audi sports car, a truck, guns, bullets, and knives. Drug urine tests revealed illegal drugs in two of the four men’s systems. Those men will face drug charges in Thailand before being deported.
Pol. Maj. Gen. Surachet said, “Some members of the Hells Angels gang were disguised as tourists and threatened national security as they were involved in extortion, money laundering, illicit drugs, and human trafficking. They were the same group of people involved in the murder and secret burial of an Australian two years ago.”
He noted that they had “entered Thailand, married Thai women, were without regular jobs, but had luxury houses and cars and spent lavishly.”
Related to the raid and arrests, police canceled the visas for all eight men on their list, though three are still at large in Thailand and one is believed to have fled the country.
