Meeting former international fugitive Dan Tito Davis

It was actually back in 2018 when I first met Dan Tito Davis. He’d booked a tour with me to the Philippines. The tour itself involved watching people get crucified at Easter (not figuratively but literally), so you could say attracted an interesting clientele.

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Who is Dan Tito Davis?

According to hime he was the inventor of the Red Bull of his day, although it was more like speed than the drink mix with vodka. It was though one molecule different,which meant it was for a time at least legal.

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Sadly what was not legal was him not paying tax and much like Al Capone he ended up inside for not paying Uncle Sam.

Sadly prison did was prison does and made him unemployable, while also introducing him to the criminal networks and the drug cartels. This led him to end up drug running weed, before he was stitched up by an associate and was potentially looking at a long time in the big house. He decided to go on the run. 

The international fugitive

And go on the run he did! Spending the next 14 years using hundreds of passports, which he calls books and traveling literally around the world. This life seemingly was working out well with him finally setting up a business on the tourist islands of Islas Margaretta in Venezuela.

It was though here where things would come crashing down. He became as he describes it “sloppy” with the net result being him getting kidnapped and taken back to America from Venezuela, or rendition as the cool kids call it. 

He was initially given 18 years, which was reduced to 10, finally serving 9 and getting out one year before I was to meet him. By this point he had written a book and was as he puts it “making the most of the 4th quarter”. He is after all almost 70 years old now.

Dan Tito Davis today

Having been out of prison for  5 years he has really been making the most of things, particularly with his book, which he describes as “Book Pimping”, with Gringo (the title of his book) taking to numerous countries and all 7 continents.

There has even been talk of a movie, and, or Netflix deal, which we would certainly welcome as something we would want to watch! And as we had gotten to meet him we decided to ask him an important question, would Cambodia be a good place to go on the run?

Could you go on the run in Cambodia?

So, the elephant in the room – is Cambodia a good place to go on the run? Here’s what Tito had to say;

“An developing country is a good place to hide out as you can bribe the authorities, but the problem is often the people you are paying are being paid by the people looking for you”.

“The main thing is to keep a low profile. I had a $2 million bounty on my head which made me a marked man and I would have left Venezuela if I had known”. 

And acceding to Tito that is what it boils down to whatever you end up, paying people off and at least trying to keep as low a profile as you possibly can. 

And you can read his story here on his website, or directly from Amazon.

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