The Bureau of Immigration (BI) intercepted three foreign sex offenders who were not allowed to enter the country at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) for being undesirable aliens.
Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the three passengers were intercepted at the NAIA Terminal 1 when they arrived as tourists.
The passengers denied entry were identified as Jeffrey William Jewitt, Charles David James Weatherall and Momodu Wurie Jalloh, all US citizens.
Jewittwas, who arrived from South Korea, was convicted of sex offenses in 2012 by a court in Illinois, according to information obtained from the BI’s border control and intelligence unit (BCIU),
He was convicted on two counts of child abduction and sexually luring a 16-year-old girl and one count of sexual exploitation of a 12-year-old child.
Weatherall was refused entry after he arrived via an Air China flight from Beijing.
The BI-BCIU said Weatherall was convicted of child pornography for possessing indecent images of children in the United Kingdom.
Meanwhile, Jalloh was turned away after arriving aboard a Saudia Airlines flight from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The BI-Interpol unit said Momodu was convicted in Virginia for aggravated sexual assault due to incapacitation wherein the victim is a 21-year-old woman.
The three aliens were placed in the immigration blacklist and banned from coming back to the country.