Man face trials in Vietnam, U.S.

Man face trials in Vietnam, U.S.

HANOI (DPA): A Vietnamese-American, sought for theft in Vietnam and a 1983 murder in the United States, was turned over by Cambodian authorities to Vietnam, where he will face charges before his expected deportation to the U.S., police said yesterday.

Nguyen Kim Ninh, 40, was arrested last week in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, after an international manhunt that involved Thai police and agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Ninh, who goes by the name of Juan Minh, fled to the United States in 1976 as a boat person from his native town of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City.

After being expelled from Northern Kentucky University for gang-raping a female student, he turned to a life of crime among Vietnamese gangs centered in Los Angeles, according to Vietnamese press accounts.