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.