The Bangkok South Criminal Court has issued warrants for the arrest of two American citizens allegedly involved in an attempt to smuggle human organs to the United States, deputy police chief Ruangsak Jarit-ek said on Tuesday, as reported by Matichon Online.
Pol Gen Ruangsak said Ryan Edward McPherson, 31, and Daniel Tanner, 33, are wanted on charges of theft of property for public use and illegally attempting to smuggle human parts out of the country by submitting a false statement.
He said police asked the court to issue the arrest warrants after obtaining sufficient evidence to prove that the human parts had been stolen from Siriraj Medical Museum at Siriraj Hospital.
Pol Gen Ruangsak said the police Foreign Affairs Division had contacted Interpol and would exchange information to hunt down the two men, who were reported to be now in Cambodia.
The suspects had earlier been detained for allegedly attempting to ship home five stolen human parts preserved in formaldehyde after five human parts packed in separate acrylic boxes were detected in consignments by x-ray at a DHL branch on Saturday night.
They were released because a criminal background check came back clean, police said.
The two left Thailand on Sunday morning for Cambodia.