Family seeks release of Ontario grandmother held in Hong Kong on drug charges

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The apparent online scam that landed Suzana Thayer in a Hong Kong jailfor allegedly trafficking cocaine on a flight from Ethiopia was not the first time the Ontario grandmother had been duped by a fake internet romance. Suzana Thayer in this family handout image.HO/The Canadian Press Thayer was writing a book about her first experience of being defrauded online – by someone purporting to be a doctor working for the United Nations in Syria – when her family says she was lured in again. In the first ordeal the Barrie, Ont., resident lost more than $200,000. In the second she...