Banged Up Abroad

April 1, 2008

Simon's trip to Peru is initiated by his friend Sarah Jackson who convinces him to smuggle drugs. Things turn bad for Simon when he is handed a lengthy prison sentence.

July 21, 2008

Lia McCord, an American teenager, is arrested in Bangladesh for trying to smuggle heroin.

July 28, 2008

Scott White is arrested in Kuwait for selling hashish, then escapes from jail during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

September 15, 2008

Amardeep Bassey, a British journalist on the way to Afghanistan for an assignment, is accused of being a spy and arrested in Pakistan.

September 29, 2008

Russell Thoresen, an American traveller, is arrested in Peru for trying to smuggle cocaine.

October 13, 2008

Taiwan's most-wanted criminal breaks into the house of McGill Alexander, a South African army colonel, and takes Alexander and his family hostage.

October 27, 2008

An American, Daniel Van De Zande is arrested trying to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe.

October 29, 2008

Cullen Thomas, working with his girlfriend "Rocket," is arrested trying to smuggle hashish from the Philippines to South Korea.