African-American arrested for allegedly murdering Canadian English teacher, Taiwanese man arrested for buying machetes
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/08/25
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — An African-American man and a Taiwanese man suspected of
Ewart Odane Bent (center) escorted by police. (By Central News Agency)
being involved in the grisly murder and dismemberment of a Canadian English teacher at a riverside park in New Taipei have been Prosecutor’s Office today, while a third suspect remains at large.
Police last night (Aug. 24) in Taipei’s Da’an District apprehended 30-year-old African-American male Ewart Odane Bent on suspicion of committing the grisly murder of 43-year-old Canadian English teacher Ramgahan Sanjay Ryan on on Aug. 21, reported Apple Daily. That same evening, a 21-year-old Taiwanese man surnamed Wu (吳) was also arrested for allegedly assisting Ewart purchase two machetes, which are believed to be the murder weapons. Meanwhile, a third suspect, a U.S. citizen identified by the Chinese surname Sun (孫), who police believe wielded the second machete, is still at large, according to Apple Daily and Liberty Times.
In May of this year, Taipei police found foreigners to be in possession of marijuana in a nightclub and traced the origin of the drug to Ryan. He was then arrested in Yonghe District for possession of more than 200 grams of marijuana.
After being leveled with drug charges, several of Ryan’s clients suspected he began working as a police informant and had started to betray their drug deals to the authorities, according to media reports. After becoming engaged in heated disputes with Ryan over drugs, Bent and Sun allegedly plotted to set an ambush for him. [FULL STORY]