BANGKOK, Thailand – A three-year global manhunt for Christopher Paul Neil, a Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing Asian boys, ended Friday when police arrested him at a house in northeastern Thailand. They tracked him through phone calls made by a Thai transvestite roommate.

Neil, who surrendered peacefully, was found though high-tech police work that relied on digitally unscrambled photos and tips from the public after an unprecedented appeal via the Internet.

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