The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe

Author:Patrick Radden Keefe
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Illegal Aliens - United States, United States - Emigration and Immigration, Human Smuggling - United States, Law, Social Science, Illegal Aliens, Emigration & Immigration, True Crime, Human Smuggling, Asia, General, United States, Criminals & Outlaws, China, Human Trafficking - United States, Biography & Autobiography, International, Criminology, Human Trafficking, History
ISBN: 0385521308
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2009-07-21T00:00:00+00:00

During his time in Hong Kong, Ah Kay had developed something of a routine. He spent the days indoors, sleeping, and emerged only in the early evening, surrounded by a coterie of bodyguards. He would work out, eat dinner with his entourage at a restaurant, and then gamble through the night, often returning home at six or seven the next morning.

On Friday, August 27, he left the building at dusk, with Li Xing Hua and three other bodyguards. Ah Kay was dressed casually, in jeans and a cotton pullover. The four men strolled to the restaurant where they planned to eat, which was really just a food stall in a busy market. Suddenly they were surrounded by plainclothes detectives from the Triad Bureau of the Royal Hong Kong Police. Ah Kay surrendered peacefully. When the officers searched him, they found no weapons and only a few dollars. The sole hint of his fortune and infamy was his jewelry: several gold chains dangling around his neck and a large gold ring fashioned into the head of a dragon.

Jerry Stuchiner was furious. He and the Fat Man had effected Ah Kay’s arrest, he felt, yet it had somehow become an FBI operation, and the INS wasn’t getting any of the credit. For his part, the Fat Man had anticipated some monetary reward for his assistance in securing so high-profile a target, but he had no relationship with the FBI the way he did with the DEA and the INS and was disappointed when no payment came through.

As soon as Ah Kay was in custody, one of the FBI agents in Hong Kong made a phone call to New York and spoke with Konrad Motyka and his colleagues in the C-6 squad. It was time to move on the Fuk Ching gang.

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