Ex-convict Yang Shuang-wu (
Authorities want to question Yang, who was released in 2003 after serving time for his involvement in a number of high-profile shootings, in connection with the suspected blackmailing of gravel companies and other businesses in the south of the country.
"Get down! Get down!" a policeman yelled at Yang in footage broadcast by the ETTV news channel.
PHOTO: HUANG CHIH-YUAN, TAIPEI TIMES
Yang was then shown being pinned to the ground by a number of law enforcement officers.
Apparently unimpressed, Yang criticized the police for playing up to the cameras.
"Give me a break. There is no need to dramatize everything like this," he said in the ETTV clip.
"If you want to find me, just give me a call and I will show up. Why the need for all this drama?" he added.
According to a Central News Agency (CNA) report yesterday, the Kaohsiung police and a SWAT team conducted the pre-dawn raid, which focused not only on the motel where Yang was staying, but also on various locations where more than 10 of Yang's alleged accomplices were hiding.
All locations were raided simultaneously, according to CNA.
Yang, the son of a retired high-level police official, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 1990 for the shootings of singer Gao Ling-feng (
He has been living in Kaohsiung with his Chinese wife Mai Jinpei (
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