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desultude
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 Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:00 am Post subject: Watch out for the one eyed dragon |
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'One-eyed dragon' done in by craving for chicken rice
By Ben Nadarajan
The Straits Times
Publication Date : 2006-03-05
The one-eyed dragon's craving for Hainanese chicken rice proved to be his undoing.
Around midnight last Friday (Feb 24), Tan Chor Jin, the man suspected of shooting dead nightclub owner Lim Hock Soon on Feb 15, succumbed to his cravings and ordered room service at the five-star Grand Plaza Parkroyal hotel in Kuala Lumpur, where he was hiding out.
That opened the door -- literally -- for Malaysian police.
An undercover cop posing as a waiter delivered the food to Tan's room and used the opportunity to scout out the room, noting its layout and how many people were in there.
A tiny listening device was stuck on one of the dishes.
In Tan's room on the 13th floor were his Malaysian wife, two men and two women, all watching television and drinking beer.
At 2am, the other two couples returned to their beds in adjoining rooms.
Two hours later, when all the police could hear out of the rooms were snores, 12 officers smashed through the doors and pounced on the six people before they could get out of bed.
No illegal items were in Tan's room, but in the other rooms police found six guns, 203 bullets, two pairs of handcuffs and 4kg of ketamine.
Each of Tan's two partners had placed a loaded gun on a stand beside their beds, but they had no chance to use them.
Malaysia's Criminal Investigation Department head Gan Teck Seng said: "We rounded them all up without having to fire a single shot. We did it so quickly and quietly that the other guests on that floor slept on soundly without a clue."
The lightning raid spelt the end of 10 days on the run for 39-year-old Tan, nicknamed the "one-eyed dragon" because he is blind in the right eye.
Unknown to him, Malaysian police had been trailing him since he fled to Johor Baru after the shooting.
Along with Malaysian Ho Yueh Keong, he had travelled across the Causeway in a Proton Wira.
Once they got to Johor Baru, they split up.
Tan got himself a crew cut, presumably to change his appearance, before calling on a gang lord in the town.
That was his biggest mistake.
The man was already being watched by Malaysian police due to his secret society links.
When the police saw Tan, they started trailing him as well.
It was not long before they realised he was the man wanted by Singapore police for allegedly gunning down Lim in his Serangoon Avenue 4 flat.
That evening, Tan met another Singaporean wanted for murder, Ngoi Yew Fatt, and the three men drove to Muar to pick up their lovers -- another mistake.
The group of six then drove in two cars to Malacca, Negri Sembilan and finally to Kuala Lumpur.
Picking up the women was another huge mistake, as trailing a big group was much easier, said Kuala Lumpur police chief Mustafa Abdullah.
"When following the men, we had to be more careful, stay farther behind them as they are more alert and experienced about such things.
"But the women had no idea at all and were so much easier to trail," he said.
Tan and his gang were clever enough to switch hotels at least once every two days.
But again he made a wrong move when he overruled his companions' advice to keep a low profile, choosing instead to stay in expensive hotels before going to Thailand, where he planned to lie low for at least a year.
Tan, who is a member of the Ang Soon Tong gang which has links on both sides of the Causeway, was apparently going to stay in a house the gang owns in Chiang Mai.
He was extradited to Singapore last Wednesday (March 1) and was charged with Lim's murder on Friday (March 3).
Ngoi is still remanded in Kuala Lumpur as he is being investigated for trafficking guns and drugs, the former being a capital offence in Malaysia.
Known in the underworld as "Tony Kia," Tan was apparently desperate to avoid being taken back to Singapore, where he knew he could be hanged if convicted.
On the way to the Kuala Lumpur courts on Wednesday morning, he reportedly offered to rat on his gun supplier and his gang members if the police kept him in Malaysia.
While being interrogated by them, he said very little, apart from: "You should have shot me dead in the hotel."
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Xerxes
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| What an unfortunate nickname. Sounds like a euphemism for your one-eyed trouser snake. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:07 am Post subject: |
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| Xerxes wrote: |
| What an unfortunate nickname. Sounds like a euphemism for your one-eyed trouser snake. |
Don't play around with him or he'll spit a few rounds at you.
Sparkles*_* |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| Xerxes wrote: |
| What an unfortunate nickname. Sounds like a euphemism for your one-eyed trouser snake. |
I thought it was going to be an Onion article when I saw the headline.  |
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HapKi
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:07 am Post subject: |
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| working their beat, the long arm of the law final got its hand around the one eyed dragon. |
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vox
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| The police caught the one-eyed dragon red-handed, with his pants down, before he had a chance to get up. Red-faced with embarassment, the one-eyed dragon hung his head in shame. |
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Manner of Speaking
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:56 am Post subject: |
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** rolling on the floor laughing **
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vox
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:02 am Post subject: |
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| Just before the police stormed the hotel room, the one-eyed dragon was overheard saying to his two friends, "are you two nuts? I tell you there's at least one a*shole following us around, I just know it!" |
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Xerxes
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:23 am Post subject: |
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The one-eyed Dragon finally got holed up in the clink until he was to stand...before a jury.  |
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vox
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:53 am Post subject: |
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| During interrogation of the one-eyed dragon they tried to shake him down but eventually he started spouting little white lies everywhere. The detective commented, 'I smell something fishy going on.' |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:48 am Post subject: |
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| While entering the courthouse, the one-eyed red dragon hung its head in defeat at the sight his arresting officer, inspector Ugg 'Fat Mamma' Lee. 'Fat Mamma' was quoted as saying she is happy to have gotten her hands on a member of the notorious Long Dong crime family, "I always get my man, one way or another." |
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vox
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| At the arraignment, the one-eyed dragon looked to his girlfriend and said, hey honey, why the long face? |
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