Bureau of Immigration (BI) operatives have arrested an American wanted by Texas authorities for alleged sexual assault on a disabled woman three years ago.
In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco identified the fugitive as Calvert Leroy Cummings, 68, who was arrested in a subdivision in Novaliches, Quezon City by elements
from the BI’s fugitive search unit.
Tansingco said US authorities sought Cummings’ arrest and requested the suspect’s deportation to stand trial for his crime in Texas.
The BI chief said Cummings would be placed in the immigration blacklist and banned from re-entering the country.
According to BI-FSU chief Rendel Ryan Sy, Cummings was issued an arrested warrant by a court Aransas County, Texas in September 2019 after he was indicted on charges of aggravated sexual assault on a disabled person.
Cummings fled to the Philippines to evade arrest and prosecution for his crime.
Cummings is temporarily held at the BI’s facility inside Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig pending his deportation.
