GOVERNMENT agents arrested in Pampanga a convicted American pedophile who hid in the Philippines for more than two years to avoid imprisonment for sexual offenses in the US.
Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said his men from the Fugitive Search Unit arrested Donald Steward Hammond inside his room in the Oasis Hotel along Clark Premiere Road in Angeles City on Tuesday.
The arrest was made on the strength of a mission order that Morente issued at the request of the United States embassy in Manila which sought the fugitive’s arrest and deportation to the US.
Morente said Hammond had been hiding in the country since April 26, 2014 when he arrived in Manila as a tourist. He added that Hammond was an undocumented alien when arrested as his passport was already canceled by the US government.
Lawyer Jose Carlitos Licas, FSU chief, said Hammond was the subject of an arrest warrant by the Broward County court in Florida on Feb. 24 last year after authorities learned that he had fled.