Maybe they thought they were The Expendables. Delusions of grandeur hasn’t stopped a mercenary gang of retired soldiers from around the world from being dismantled by international police work.
Most recently, Thailand extradited to the United States yesterday five men linked to the international ring of drug runners and assassins led by a former U.S. Army sniper.
Wanted for conspiring to smuggle cocaine, the men – one each from the Philippines, Taiwan, Slovakia and two from the United Kingdom – were escorted by agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency onto a charted flight from Don Muang Airport, said Thai police Gen. Somyot Pumpanmuang.
Their extradition came two months after the arrest of Joseph Hunter, a 48-year-old former U.S. Army sniper nicknamed “Rambo,” was arrested on Phuket. He stands accused of being the mastermind of an international criminal syndicate that ran drugs and murdered for pay.
Hunter has also been charged in U.S. court of conspiring to kill a DEA agent.
Two other retired soldiers, a German and American, have also been charged in New York after their capture in Liberia, where the hit was supposed to occur, police said.
And in Estonia, two other gang members – also former soldiers from Germany and Poland – were charged with related offenses, The Modesto Bee reports.
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