Bureau of Immigration (BI) operatives announced the arrest of an American national wanted by authorities in Texas for invasive visual recording, defined as being committed if one photographs, records or broadcasts a person’s intimate areas in a private space, such as a bathroom or a changing room, without the victim’s consent.
BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said that based on a report from BI fugitive search unit (FSU) acting chief Rendell Ryan Sy, the fugitive was identified as Jason Clint Reed, 43, who was arrested on May 9 along Roxas Blvd., Ermita, Manila.
Tansingco said te FSU operatives who apprehended Reed were armed with a mission order that was issued the same at the request of the US authorities in Manila.
Reed, it was learned, is already an undocumented alien as his passport was already revoked by the State Department.
“He had also been overstaying in the country for almost eight years as BI records show that he last arrived in Manila on Nov. 27, 2014 and never left or bothered to extend his stay since then,” Sy said.
According to the US government, a warrant of arrest was issued against Reed by a district court in Jefferson County, Texas on Jan. 5, 2015 after he was charged for improper photo and visual recording. The Texas penal code defines invasive visual recording as being committed if one photographs, records or broadcasts a person’s intimate areas in a private space, such as a bathroom or a changing room, without the victim’s consent.
If convicted, a person of such crime may be sentenced to a jail term of between six months and two years and fined up to US$10,000.
Reed is now detained at the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City pending deportation proceedings and will thus be deported for overstaying and for being an undocumented and overstaying alien.
