Fugitive biker busted on party island in encrypted phone sting


The Mob Reporter here with the latest on the high-profile fugitives from U.S. justice who weren’t to be found in June 2021, when the incredible AN0M encrypted phone network sting clamped shut, trapping a thousand suspects in more than a dozen countries and counting.
Shane Ngakuru is the latest to be caught, wanted in the United States and in New Zealand. He was named as one of the big fish in the FBI’s Operation Trojan Shield. Ngakuru was arrested in Thailand on Oct. 19, 2022. Thai authorities described him as an important member of the Comanchero Motorcycle Club, a powerful biker club started in Australia. The 43-year-old Ngakuru, authorities allege, is one of New Zealand’s biggest crime exports. Ngakuru is not just any Comanchero member, police say, but one of its internationally influential members, partly because of who his cousin is: another New Zealander who made it big in Australia’s outlaw biker scene, a man named Duax Ngakuru, also known as Dax. He’s been called an “international commander” of the Comanchero organization.

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