A suspected con man from the United States was picked up by authorities in Bangkok yesterday and will be extradited to the United States.
Joseph Arsenault was arrested at the PB Tower in the On Nut area Monday upon the request of the U.S. Embassy for his involvement in a telemarketing scam that bilked more than USD20 million from hundreds of victims throughout the United States.
Arsenault and his accomplices are accused of tricking them into investing in “flipping” undervalued homes, according to Bangkok Post.
The New York resident also appears to have played bit parts in ‘90s movies such as “Orgazmo” and “Play it to the Bone,” according to a blog where Arsenault seems to have once written about himself from a third-person perspective.
Even more, a Florida newspaper shows he was arrested on suspicion of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2007 “on a bed covered with photos of other women wearing the same outfit” he’d put on her body.
Another suspect in the case, Gregory Swarn, was arrested in Thailand in November was extradited to U.S. authorities for prosecution.
RIGHT: Joseph Arsenault was arrested on Soi Sukhumvit 71 on Monday morning. Photo: Immigration Bureau
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