9/18/07New Zealand police search for Pumpkin's mother Annie Xue (father fled to USA)
9/21 Naiyin Xue seen in Los Angeles' Chinatown (Pumpkin case)
Posted on 02/29/2008 11:38:44 AM PST by Shermy
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Chinese-language magazine publisher accused of killing his wife in New Zealand and abandoning his daughter at an Australian train station was captured Thursday in an Atlanta suburb, authorities said.
Nai Yin Xue was caught after residents of a Chamblee, Ga., apartment recognized him from pictures published in the media and called police, U.S. Marshals Service Chief Inspector Thomas Hession said.
Hession said that when the residents, who were of Chinese descent, confronted Xue about his identity, he tried to leave the building but they detained him until police arrived.
"They did a great job," he said. "The Chinese community throughout this investigation stepped up."
Police in Chamblee told the New Zealand Press Association that six men who recognized Xue jumped on him and bound his ankles with his belt and pants. When officers arrived, the men were sitting on Xue, who also had his hands tied behind his back.
"We responded to a 911 call to a possible wanted person and found him being restrained by six of his fellow countrymen," Assistant Police Chief Mark T. Bender said.
Xue faces deportation to New Zealand, a process that could be completed within days, said Brian DeMores, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's acting director in Los Angeles.
New Zealand authorities issued kidnap and murder warrants for Xue.
He was accused of killing his wife, Anan Liu, in September in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city. He then flew to Australia and abandoned his 3-year-old daughter at a Melbourne train station, a scene recorded by a security camera.
By the time Liu's body was found in the trunk of a car, Xue had flown to the U.S., authorities said.
During the five-month investigation, Xue was tracked across the country, Hession said. His picture was posted on billboards in several southern states and he was featured on television's "America's Most Wanted."
Hession said Xue, a martial arts expert, initially told police he was someone else, but he was carrying a New Zealand driver's license. When confronted with this, he admitted his identity, they said.
Xue is the publisher of a Chinese-language magazine in New Zealand and a well-known figure in the ethnic Chinese community in Auckland. DeMores said he did not know whether Xue had an attorney.
His daughter, Qian Xun Xue, is now living in China with relatives. She had been nicknamed "Pumpkin" after the make of clothing she was wearing when found abandoned and crying for her mother at the train station.
9/18/07New Zealand police search for Pumpkin's mother Annie Xue (father fled to USA)
9/21 Naiyin Xue seen in Los Angeles' Chinatown (Pumpkin case)
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Good news ping.
(It's known locally as "Chambodia", but there are more Chinese, Koreans, and Vietnamese living in the area than Cambodians.)
They are VERY conscious of their standing in the metro area. They don't want people coming in and giving their community a bad name.
Good. Sounds like they pulled the scumbag’s pants down around his ankles and held him for police.
Some of the highest achievement and aptitude test scores for metro Atlanta come from that area (I’d call it Chamblodia).
And he couldn't escape these six guys?
Did this make the Kiwi news?
Considering how liberal and left loony New Zealand is at the moment. Will he at least get six months in jail?
Xue, a martial arts expert ...
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six men who recognized Xue jumped on him and bound his ankles with his belt and pants. When officers arrived, the men were sitting on Xue, who also had his hands tied behind his back.
LOL!!
We have friends who live over there, their daughter went from that high school to Columbia U.
Great. Send him back down under to face justice.
Good for them!
God Bless little Pumpkin! I hope her family in China is taking good care of her. Too bad she didn’t have any family here who could have taken her; her future would be much brighter.
Thanks for the ping, it is a story that I have followed.
Makes me feel proud that he was captured by people who cared enough to put out the effort to set on him.
> Considering how liberal and left loony New Zealand is at the moment. Will he at least get six months in jail?
With any luck this scroat will be sentenced to something called “Preventative Detention”, which is an indefinite sentence usually reserved for the most horrific crimes in NZ. Basically it is like “Life with no Parole”, except this time they really mean it.
Abandoning an infant daughter in a foreign country at a train station after murdering a spouse and leading the cops from three nations and multiple jurisdictions on a merry dance might just qualify — let’s hope so anyrate.
On your other concern, New Zealand’s “liberal and loony left” are having the wheels fall off their wagon, big time. Current polls show Labor falling in a screaming heap an the upcoming election, to be replaced by a National-led government (perhaps even an outright majority). Exactly like I have predicted on other threads for a very long time.
Watch this space, things could get exciting!
*DieHard*
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