Link: Not Your Average Drug Bust - washingtonpost.com.
(...) When the law caught up with Ye Gon on Monday night, his weeks on the lam ended in an Asian restaurant on Veirs Mill Road in Wheaton – in P.J. Rice Bistro, in Westfield Wheaton mall, near a Ruby Tuesday and a JCPenney.
This is a man who owned a fleet of luxury cars and had mistresses in several countries, according to Mexican officials. In recent years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said, he gambled away nearly $126 million in Las Vegas casinos.
At P.J. Rice Bistro, where he and a female acquaintance ordered codfish and baby carrots, DEA agents showed up before dinner was served. "The police came to the table and asked him to go pretty fast," a bistro employee recalled yesterday. "They didn't stay in the restaurant too long."
Not your garden-variety Montgomery County drug bust... (((After that, it gets even better. For instance, it appears that Zhenli didn't flee Mexico in order to escape the ensuing raid on his house, but to rescue his girlfriend when she was arrested in Vegas.)))
