In this case it was British timeshare salesman Richard James Daffurn, 44, who was arrested following a tip-off, as he walked along Phuket Rd in Phuket Town.
Pol Capt Angkarn Yasanop of Immigration Police told The Phuket News, “In fact, we had been told that he was staying in Patong but today we ran into him in Phuket Town, walking down the road.”
When asked to show his passport Daffurn was unable to do so, so the officers took him to the Immigration Office.
Immigration records showed that he had entered Phuket on December 12, 2010, then had flown out on January 28, 2011. There was no record of his re-entering the country after that.
Daffurn admitted that he had crossed into Thailand from Malaysia later in 2011. He was charged with living in Thailand illegally and was sent to Phuket City Police Station.
Read about the 64-year-old Canadian here.