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Honolulu Gambling Suspect Booted Out of Vietnam

By Associated Press

HONOLULU — The last suspect wanted in a major organized gambling bust on Oahu a year ago has been expelled from Vietnam and turned over to the FBI, Special Agent Myron Fuller announced last Saturday.

Hung Chi Ho, 40, was recently picked up by Vietnamese police who turned him over to agents from the FBI’s liaison office in Bangkok, Thailand, Fuller said.

Ho, who also goes by the name Small David, was one of 32 people indicted in May of last year, charged with gambling and money laundering in connection with six gambling dens on Oahu.

Last year’s raids and arrests resulted from a nearly three-year undercover operation by vice squad officer Earl Koanui, who posed as a dirty cop taking $325,000 in cash bribes from the gambling operators.

Kaonui recently was selected Honolulu Police Officer of the Year for his work.