AN American national wanted for homicide by federal authorities in Florida was arrested by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA).
BI spokesperson Dana Sandoval said the passenger, identified as 57-year-old Micah David Bass, was intercepted last April 28 after arriving aboard a United Airlines flight from Guam.
Sandoval said their officers at the Mactan airport apprehended Bass while after his name registered a positive hit in the bureau’s derogatory check system while undergoing immigration arrival formalities.
Bass has been on the bureau’s wanted list since March this year when the US government alerted the BI about his presence in the country. A case for undesirability was later filed against him by the BI which would eventually lead to the issuance of an order for his summary deportation by the bureau’s board of commissioners.
It was learned that US authorities informed the BI that Bass is subject of an arrest warrant for vehicular homicide issued by the 9th judicial circuit court in Florida last March 3. It was also bared that Bass has a criminal history of theft, assault and firearms possession. He will be deported for being an undesirable and undocumented alien as the US State Department is already processing the revocation of his passport.
In another development, the BI also reported the back-to-back exclusion of two registered sex offenders also at the MCIA.
Last May 8, the BI stopped the entry of Charles Hinds Jr., 63, who arrived on board a Korean Air flight from Seoul. Public records show that Hinds faced charges for unlawful possession of child pornography in 2002.
Also excluded at MCIA last May 9 was Boris Myron Ma, 64. Ma was said to have been charged in Cambodia in 2003 for alleged sex tourism.
Sandoval said both Hinds and Ma were boarded on the next available flight back to their port of origin. Their names have been included in the BI’s blacklist, barring them from re-entering the country ever again.
