Immigration authorities arrested an American man tagged as a registered sex offender in the United States.
Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Anthony Joel Viado said that under the country’s immigration law, it prohibits the entry of foreign nationals previously convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, which involves registered sex offenders.
BI FSU chief Rendel Ryan Sy identified the American as James Russel Munson, who was arrested along Roxas Boulevard in Ermita, Manila.
According to information received from the Philippine Center on Transnational Crime and US authorities, Munson is identified as a child sex offender after previously being convicted for violation of a minor on the first degree.
Munson will remain in the BI’s custody and will face deportation proceedings and eventual blacklisting.
