PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE

Catherine Lee’s body, discovered in a pile of garbage in February 2012 in Taytay, Rizal, in the Philippines

Acmemeds.com, a typical website selling painkillers for Le Roux’s RX Limited network

CHAIWAT SUBPRASOM/REUTERS PICTURES

Joseph “Rambo” Hunter being escorted off a plane by Thai authorities in September 2013, following his arrest in Phuket for conspiracy to murder a DEA agent

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Five suspects arrested in Thailand in September 2013 for arranging the import of North Korean–made methamphetamine into the United States: (front row) Adrian Valkovic, Kelly Peralta, Philip Shackels, Ye Tiong Tan Lim; (back row) Scott Stammers

Paul Le Roux’s fake Zimbabwean passport, under the alias Bernard John Bowlins

Le Roux’s diplomatic passport from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, under the name Paul Solotshi Calder Le Roux

ROMEO RANOCO/REUTERS PICTURES

Philippine authorities examining some of the fifty assault weapons that were seized aboard the M/V Ufuk in August 2009. Most of the weapons were believed to have already been off-loaded.

PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE

Bruce Jones’s body after his murder by tandem motorcycle assassins in Angeles City in September 2010

POLÍCIA FEDERAL, BRAZIL

Le Roux captured by a surveillance camera at Galeão Airport in Rio de Janeiro, date unknown

POLÍCIA FEDERAL, BRAZIL

Immigration photos of Le Roux and his girlfriend, Cindy Cayanan, entering Brazil in 2012

POLÍCIA FEDERAL, BRAZIL

Le Roux and his phone captured on surveillance by the Brazilian federal police

POLÍCIA FEDERAL, BRAZIL

Shai Reuven and Le Roux, captured on surveillance in a mall in Rio in 2012. Reuven was accused of running drug trafficking operations for LeRoux.

ORGANIZED CRIME AND TRIAD BUREAU, HONG KONG

Some of the 160 gold bars seized from Le Roux’s employees in Hong Kong in May 2012

ORGANIZED CRIME AND TRIAD BUREAU, HONG KONG

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE

The wreck of the JeReVe, discovered off the coast of Tonga in November 2012

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE

Wrapped bricks of cocaine, totaling two hundred kilograms, that were discovered in the walls of the JeReVe. The body of one of its two crewmen was also found onboard.

DEA/U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

Scott Stammers and Philip Shackels, two of Le Roux’s deputies in his North Korean methamphetamine operation, captured on DEA surveillance in Phuket, Thailand, in 2013

PERSON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

Adam Samia following his arrest in July 2015 in Roxboro, North Carolina, for murder

PERSON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

David Stillwell following his arrest in July 2015 in Roxboro, North Carolina, for murder

SHERBURNE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

Photo from a fake arrest report for Paul Le Roux, generated in Minnesota in 2016. Le Roux was never arrested for cocaine distribution in Minnesota; the report was merely a cover for his arrival there.