Cam Nivag wrote:Gen Mack once made a very funny suggestion to me -- go from bar to bar copying down the names of the expat proprietors off the business licenses on the walls. Then Google their names to see how many are fugitives.

vladimir wrote:What kind of stupid name is 'David', anyway?

By Ben Sokhean | January 26, 2015

A 28-year-old Malaysian woman and her American boyfriend were arrested in the early hours of Saturday morning after they hit a tuk-tuk full of passengers with their Mercedes SUV and then sped away, police said.

Sem Kunthea, municipal deputy traffic police chief, said that at about 11:30 p.m. on Friday, the Malaysian woman crashed the SUV she was driving into a tuk-tuk on Sisowath Quay in Daun Penh district’s Chey Chumneah commune after leaving a party on Koh Pich island.

“When she drove in front of the Royal Palace, the car was swerving and then crashed into the left side of the tuk-tuk, injuring four people,” he said, noting that the injuries were minor.

Mr. Kunthea refused to identify the Malaysian woman, but named the American man in the car as Vic Boyle. He said both had been drinking before the accident.

“After the crash, the American replaced her as the driver and sped from the scene,” he said. “They sped from the scene because they were scared local people would attack them.”

Mr. Kunthea said police and military police pursued the SUV and pulled it over on Street 214 in Boeng Raing commune.

“Police and military police followed them and arrested them about 1.5 km from the scene,” Mr. Kunthea said.

Mr. Kunthea said that Mr. Boyle was released from police custody on Saturday.

“We brought them in for questioning at the municipal traffic police station, but we released the U.S. man later because he was not the driver,” he said.

“However, we are detaining the Malaysian and brought her for questioning at the court Monday, accused of causing injuries while driving.”

Mr. Boyle, who identifies himself on the professional networking website LinkedIn as the general manager of a company called S.S. Digital Media Advertising, could not be reached Sunday.

Photographs published in local media of the arrest and its aftermath appear to show that Mr. Boyle’s companion was Edrea Chua, a Malaysian woman whose photograph also appears on Mr. Boyle’s Facebook profile, where she is identified as his girlfriend.

General Mackevili wrote:What a mess, LoL!

Kuroneko wrote:

Cam Nivag wrote:Gen Mack once made a very funny suggestion to me -- go from bar to bar copying down the names of the expat proprietors off the business licenses on the walls. Then Google their names to see how many are fugitives.

The problem is that most bar owners are Khmer, particularly with respect to hostess bars anyway, and the few that are not generally have their license registered under their "girlfriends"name.

General Chatter wrote:

General Mackevili wrote:What a mess, LoL!

yes lets have a good laugh at others misfortunes ....lol

VLayHo-ho-ho wrote:What are the consequences for the female suspect if charged with driving without a license, driving under the influence of alcohol, and attempting to leave the scene of an accident, and then eventually found guilty in a court of law in Cambodia?

The Boeng Kak lake activists have been tried and sentenced in a very short time, and their crimes are of public disorder which is not as harmful or fatal as a hit and run / drunk driving.