American expat Eric Erdmann arrested in Phnom Penh
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FBI and law enforcement dudes work our of the embassy. Do you have the guy's name/title? They are allowed to lie about the exact nature of their role.
Eric, I don't know why you seem to be objecting to the notion that you were targeted as a suspected sex offender due to mistaken identity. That's why the article reports you as being 44 and having prior sex charges. I understand that is erroneous, but the Khmer reporter didn't make that up out of thin air. Someone told him you were 44. Someone told him you had prior sex charges. Someone told him the FBI was involved. They mistakenly thought you were the guy from ORegon with a similar name.
Westerners aren't just randomly hunted down for minor visa overstays, with a photographer ready to capture the moment.
You were detained as a pretext on the visa overstay so they could check if you were the Oregon guy. At the direction of US law enforcement. This is also why tuk tuk drivers told your wife weeks ago APLE was following you. They were. This stuff is all related.
I accept that you are completely innocent of all the allegations, but you were detained because they thought you were a bad dude with a similar name, and when they determined they were wrong, they let you go with just a visa overstay charge. They just didn't tell the reporter that part, which was pretty important.
Eric, I don't know why you seem to be objecting to the notion that you were targeted as a suspected sex offender due to mistaken identity. That's why the article reports you as being 44 and having prior sex charges. I understand that is erroneous, but the Khmer reporter didn't make that up out of thin air. Someone told him you were 44. Someone told him you had prior sex charges. Someone told him the FBI was involved. They mistakenly thought you were the guy from ORegon with a similar name.
Westerners aren't just randomly hunted down for minor visa overstays, with a photographer ready to capture the moment.
You were detained as a pretext on the visa overstay so they could check if you were the Oregon guy. At the direction of US law enforcement. This is also why tuk tuk drivers told your wife weeks ago APLE was following you. They were. This stuff is all related.
I accept that you are completely innocent of all the allegations, but you were detained because they thought you were a bad dude with a similar name, and when they determined they were wrong, they let you go with just a visa overstay charge. They just didn't tell the reporter that part, which was pretty important.
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gavinmac wrote:FBI and law enforcement dudes work our of the embassy. Do you have the guy's name/title? They are allowed to lie about the exact nature of their role.
Eric, I don't know why you seem to be objecting to the notion that you were targeted as a suspected sex offender due to mistaken identity. That's why the article reports you as being 44 and having prior sex charges. I understand that is erroneous, but the Khmer reporter didn't make that up out of thin air. Someone told him you were 44. Someone told him you had prior sex charges. Someone told him the FBI was involved. They mistakenly thought you were the guy from ORegon with a similar name.
Westerners aren't just randomly hunted down for minor visa overstays, with a photographer ready to capture the moment.
You were detained as a pretext on the visa overstay so they could check if you were the Oregon guy. At the direction of US law enforcement. This is also why tuk tuk drivers told your wife weeks ago APLE was following you. They were. This stuff is all related.
I accept that you are completely innocent of all the allegations, but you were detained because they thought you were a bad dude with a similar name, and when they determined they were wrong, they let you go with just a visa overstay charge. They just didn't tell the reporter that part, which was pretty important.
This sums up my assessment of the situation perfectly.
I dont know specificly who funds aple but the former aple director was brought up on child sex abuse charges directed by aple. It is my understanding that possibly the former director was trying to expose aple's corruption so they sought to defame him with false charges.
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Re GM's post: And there's the distinct paradigm; Aple, police, newspapers and embassy. Not surprising it's corrupt. It is Cambodia after all. But the complicity and lack of proper process by the embassy is astounding.
If i have no federal charges and no extraditable warrants. Why would the FBI be involved? I specificly asked the embassy if the FBI was involved and they said no. What possible reason would the embassy lie to me about that? Makes no sense. I asked because the news article said FBI. They said the news story was all false and thats all I know. I wasnt asked any questions sbout sex crimes. Just the status of my visa. So I dont know what is going on with all that stuff. I am clueless.
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That's how the embassy work. They will be doing everything possible to close all channels now.sniper_m4 wrote:If i have no federal charges and no extraditable warrants. Why would the FBI be involved? I specificly asked the embassy if the FBI was involved and they said no. I asked because the news article said FBI. They said the news story was all false and thats all I know. I wasnt asked any questions sbout sex crimes. Just the status of my visa. So I dont know what is going on with all that stuff. I am clueless.
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It's possible the embassy flat out lied to you. It's possible the embassy person mistakenly thought the FBI was involved when they weren't.sniper_m4 wrote:If i have no federal charges and no extraditable warrants. Why would the FBI be involved? I specificly asked the embassy if the FBI was involved and they said no.
I know you're not a lawyer, but a better question would have been "Were any Anerican law enforcement officers involved" or "Was the embassy's (legal? security) attache involved etc.? It's very possible that the FBI itself wasn't there, but someone working with the FBI was there. The embassy official may have said "No" to FBI but would have said "Yes" or "no comment" if you uttered other magic words.
Follow up with them. Ask what offices/personnel were involved. Ask if any American law enforcement personnel were involved before, during or after your detention. Ask what, if, any communications occurred between embassy or American law enforcement authorities and Cambodian authorities before you were detained or after you were detained. Ask if this had something to do with suspicion that you were a different person with a criminal record. It did.
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Interesting. So the embassy is tipping off local press jackals and setting Americans up for extrajudicial extraditions. That sounds illegal. Imagine what happens when they leave this stuff to the Cambodians, no American courts involved. Just the totally corrupt Cambodian judicial system and local NGOs that 'can't admit to a mistake' and profit on this...and the corrupt Khmer press and profiting Cambodian NGOs feeding us all we know of the case. How many innocents in Cambodian jails for this sort of thing?gavinmac wrote:FBI and law enforcement dudes work our of the embassy. Do you have the guy's name/title? They are allowed to lie about the exact nature of their role.
Eric, I don't know why you seem to be objecting to the notion that you were targeted as a suspected sex offender due to mistaken identity. That's why the article reports you as being 44 and having prior sex charges. I understand that is erroneous, but the Khmer reporter didn't make that up out of thin air. Someone told him you were 44. Someone told him you had prior sex charges. Someone told him the FBI was involved. They mistakenly thought you were the guy from ORegon with a similar name.
Westerners aren't just randomly hunted down for minor visa overstays, with a photographer ready to capture the moment.
You were detained as a pretext on the visa overstay so they could check if you were the Oregon guy. At the direction of US law enforcement. This is also why tuk tuk drivers told your wife weeks ago APLE was following you. They were. This stuff is all related.
I accept that you are completely innocent of all the allegations, but you were detained because they thought you were a bad dude with a similar name, and when they determined they were wrong, they let you go with just a visa overstay charge. They just didn't tell the reporter that part, which was pretty important.
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Well we've known about the tipoffs for a long time. Remember William Brayn Glenn, the guy who turned up dead? Then I think the news came out the the Khmer authorities were already looking for him, at the request of Americans.LTO wrote: Interesting. So the embassy is tipping off local local jackals and setting Americans up for extrajudicial extraditions.
And when Michael Edward Harris was arrested, the Khmer cops said their hunt started when they got documents from the US authorities about him. See this for a refresher:
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/ ... lle-69969/
US authorities were also involved in the arrest of child rapist Ian Heller for an "expired visa":
http://www.khmer440.com/chat_forum/view ... 8&start=48
I don't have reason to believe any of this is illegal. I think I wrote a lengthy post somewhere that is a bit unseemly that embassies that are supposed to represent the interests of their citizens are sometimes ratting them out to local law enforcement to be arrested. It gets particularly silly when they rat out the wrong guy.
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None that I know of. If they have charges in the US they are sent back. If they get the wrong guy, like here, they let him go. What charges would an "innocent" American in Cambodia be held on?LTO wrote:And even worse when they leave him to the dogs alone. How many innocents in Cambodian jails for this?gavinmac wrote:...It gets particularly silly when they rat out the wrong guy.
Oh, I found my 2015 post listing American law enforcement involvement in rounding up fugitives. It is here:
http://www.khmer440.com/chat_forum/view ... 55#p626336
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None that I know of either. But how would we know, especially if they leave him to the Cambodian NGOs and judicial system and the US courts are not involved?gavinmac wrote:None that I know of...LTO wrote:And even worse when they leave him to the dogs alone. How many innocents in Cambodian jails for this?gavinmac wrote:...It gets particularly silly when they rat out the wrong guy.
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I'm not sure what you are getting at. Really. Explain the hypothetical factual situation that you are concerned about that would lead to Americans being falsely imprisoned in Cambodia. I thought the issue we were talking about was US authorities using Khmer cops to round up US fugitives and ship them back to the US.
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Well, as 'hypothetical factuals' go, take this situation for example. The Americans tip the Cambodians off to a pedo in their midst but leave him to the Cambodians to take care of it. You've said yourself that the Cambodians do not admit mistakes. What happens then?...hypothetical factual...
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