Theanthong, now head of the Detective Bureau Central Robbery Division, was born in Queens’ Elmhurst Hospital to Thai parents who had emigrated to the Big
Apple. While he was born in the United States, his brother was born in Thailand, leaving him unable to meet his sibling until he was 6 years of age.
“I really wanted to learn about the religion, I realized I don’t know much about Buddhism. So, I decided to stay for as long as I could, which turned out to be about nine months for me,” Theanthong told amNewYork Metro. “I remember leaving the airport and you could smell the heat and the dust and almost, like, the fumes of Thailand.”Only 22 then, Theanthong rode up the Mekong River to the village where he said his father originally hailed from.
“A couple days after that, a man came by and he was carrying a small bag of bananas to make a donation,” Theanthong said. “And he says: ‘I haven’t had a drink in 30 days. Because I remember thinking to myself, if this man can go without food for three days, for what we need to eat to live, I can go without drink for three days. And then three days became six days, six days became 10 days and it became 30 days.
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