Man imprisoned for grisly 1996 Thai killing arrested in Winnipeg for bank robbery
WINNIPEG — A man previously convicted of killing his girlfriend in Thailand has been arrested in Manitoba on a Canada-wide warrant.
Michael Karas, 61, was wanted in three bank robberies in Toronto between November 2017 and August of this year. On Thursday, police arrested him at a Winnipeg hotel.
Karas previously was charged with the 1996 murder of a Thai woman whose body was found dismembered at a resort community in the south-Asian country.
Court documents from his extradition case in Canada show Karas was in a relationship with Suwannee Ratanaprakorn. They were living together at a hotel in Pattaya on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand.