
© ICEKatay-Khaophone Sychanta
Two bike cops in Montreal arrested one of America's most wanted criminals - the alleged ringleader of a drug-smuggling organization who has been on the lam for a dozen years, authorities said.
Katay-Khaophone Sychanta, 35, was collared by officers who suspected him and another man of possessing drugs during an encounter on a bike path patrol in Montreal's Saint-Laurent section on Wednesday. Sychanta tried to run, but was captured after a brief chase,
CBC News reports.
Sychanta, a native of Laos who had been on the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement list of its 10 most wanted criminals, gave the officer fake US identification, but his true identity was revealed back at a police station, where he was fingerprinted.
Sychanta - whose last name is also spelled Sychantha, CBC News reports - had been sought by authorities after evading capture following his 2005 indictment in the Eastern District of Michigan for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. His last known location was Lakeshore, Canada,
according to his most-wanted poster that now lists him as arrested.
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