Drug suspect caught fleeing Australia by Sea-Doo

SYDNEY, Australia - A British man wanted on drug charges has been thwarted in a daring bid to flee Australia for Papua New Guinea on a motorized personal watercraft. CAPTION ADDITION: ADDING NOTE REGISTRATION NUMBERS BLURRED This photo released by the Australian Border Force, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, shows a wanted British man who was apprehended in the Torres Strait attempting to flee Australia on a personal watercraft. Australian police say the 57-year-old set out on Monday from the northern tip of Australia’s Queensland state, carrying enough fuel to make the 140-kilometer (86-mile) trip across Torres Strait. ( AP / Australian Border Force )But after an Australian Border Force vessel was deployed to search for him, he was located only a few kilometres (miles) from his destination at Saibai Island, an Australian territory near the southern coast of New Guinea. Police said the man was wanted for drug-related offences in Western Australia, and would be sent there.