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Updated Friday, October 30, 2009 7:45 pm TWN, The China Post news staff English teacher from Canada arrested for dealing drugsThe police stated Cody worked in the computer field in Canada and relocated to Taiwan five years ago. His passport showed frequent travel to Thailand, Macau and Canada. In the day time, he worked as an English teacher at a children's after school center. During the night, he switched to a drug dealer at nightclubs. According to the police, Cody searched for possible targets at clubs, and when someone showed signs of cocaine use, he then secretly handed over an entrance ticket. With the ticket, the individual could make drug purchases at designated sites, which sometimes took place at drug parties in Cody's apartment. It was reported during the investigation that Cody was not cooperative and did not want to open the safe, which was later discovered containing 136 grams of cocaine and other equipment used in drug dealing. In Cody's statement, he claimed he was unaware that cocaine possession is illegal in Taiwan, and stated he was not involved in dealing drugs. The police made the arrest because he violated drugs and ammunition laws. Subscribe to The China Post and save 25%. Click here Comments October 31, 2009 sam_lindley@ Reply Cody. We'll miss you! Keep your eyes open inside. - Sam October 31, 2009 louis@ I hope this individual gets the full force of the Taiwanese law. It's people like him that give all foreigners in Taiwan a bad reputation. October 31, 2009 tufingyen@ THESE kinds of people make westerners look bad in eyes of Taiwanese. Authorities should make harsh sentencing and make it public in different languages so in the future foreigners don't take Taiwan for granted. All the language schools in Taiwan don't choose your teacher if they have white face, grey hair. For God’s sake come out of the closet and do the background checking thoroughly. We send our kids to your school to learn a foreign language not to learn (how to do drugs). October 31, 2009 robby@ Sux Cody! Good luck buddy... November 3, 2009 cigars898@ Thank God this monkey is out of the schools. How does that suck, Robby? Cocaine dealer / school teacher Hmmmmmmm... you need to check yourself. November 3, 2009 Adamusiak@ I think its funny that the hundreds of Taiwanese drug dealers who get busted never get written up about. Or the pimps or the people traffickers. November 5, 2009 eevecte@ No wonder it is so difficult to get our hands on some decent grade coke. it should be legalized government regulated. November 5, 2009 Marty@ That sucks buddy. Best of luck. November 5, 2009 danieljbamford@ What an idiot. Perhaps he missed the notices at every airport in Taiwan saying drug trafficking is punishable by death... Send this moron to the firing squad.It is yet another example of whites taking advantage of the Taiwanese, simply because of the colour of their skin. Part of the blame lies with the language schools for employing people based on their nationality/ethnicity, but the government really needs to crack down on these stupid foreigners. Make an example of this guy. November 6, 2009 goedel99@ This guy should be treated/punished as a local would, no worse, no better. What makes people think he was selling coke to his students? Or that he was "teaching" children to do coke, seriously? The WILLING buyers at the night clubs weren’t lucrative enough for him, so he preyed on his innocent child students, right? PLEASE! Surely tufingyen does not think Asian teachers never sell drugs, nnnooooo, that never happens. Just like young Taiwanese males never have sex, only lusty zesty foreign English teachers do that, right tufingyen? And grey hair huh????tofingyen, you can rest assured this Friday as you are traveling to your buddies house to slam down some gao liang or pi jiu, that of the hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese who wish to do cocaine this weekend, not a single one of them will be denied their drug even though this guy is off the street. November 7, 2009 cloggedwithguts@ watch your a** once you're in there...don't get [expletive deleted] November 8, 2009 ludahai_twn@ Why is it every time a foreigner gets arrested for some crime (murder, drug dealing, etc.) it ends up in the pages of the China Post but the countless myriad of Taiwanese who are guilty of this (or worse) crimes don't unless their surname happens to be Chen or related to the aforementioned Chen. Is this an indication of anti-foreign bigotry on the part of the editors of this newspaper? Guilty of this? If so, this Canada should feel the full force of Taiwan's law. However, the editors of this newspaper have a LOT of soul searching to do as well. They have a clear anti-Westerner agenda and it drips from the pages of this paper with ever instance of this in the pages of the Post along with Joe Hung editorials addressing Westerners in Taiwan. November 13, 2009 nadamoneill@ Karma's a bitch. Cody was a slime ball and screwed over several people I know. While he does give the foreign teaching population a bad name, so do the countless idiots getting drunk and making asses of themselves every night. Bottom line is he played a dangerous game in a country that has lax (but not nonexistent) enforcement and got caught. Maybe he was stupid, maybe he was unlucky, or maybe it was a combination of both. It was his own fault though. As for it ending up in the China Post, their readership is primarily foreigners (it's an English language paper, duh) and therefore they choose stories that cater to this readership. No conspiracy there. And with regards to people expecting certain behaviour (however unrealistic) from their children's teachers, try to imagine what your expectations might be if you had kids. No one really thinks he was selling to his students, but I don't think many of you would be too comfortable with a dealer of hard drugs teaching your kids. If you want to engage in behaviour like that, be a little smarter or do it in a more permissive environment. November 13, 2009 deeznuts@ Goofy bastard will get off with a slap on the wrist because he's Western. This is one more example of the talentless riff-raff that makes its way to Asia to loaf and teach English. Enjoy your cell, eh. November 17, 2009 pete-fen_@ He's out of jail already. Now how did that happen I wonder. November 18, 2009 americaninchongqing@ The guy needs to spend a lot of time in jail. Working in a day care center? What was he doing, cultivating future customers? Parents and the community should be outraged! A foreigner should obey the laws of the land! If you don't know the laws, FIND OUT! I hope this Cody guy spends many, MANY, years in jail! He is a disgrace to all foreigners who come as honest and law abiding visitors! November 21, 2009 carltanong@ @ludahai twnIf you love those drug dealers, go ahead. Nobody will stop you. Overdose yourself and down you go to jail with Cody in paradise of hell. Huhhh!!! Are you a drug courier, a drug pusher or a drug user like Cody? |
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