Immigration deports 3 Americans

MANILA, Philippines - The BI deported three Americans Wednesday on three different Philippine Airlines flights.

BI Commissioner Marcelino Libanan said among those deported was James Kenneth Nichols, 42, a convicted drug offender who was released from the New Bilibid Prisons after Malacañang granted him a conditional pardon and ordered him to pay a fine of P500,000.

American Douglas John Fitzgerald, 68, is wanted by a US district court in Idaho for tax evasion, while David Lawrence Fiske, 49, is reportedly wanted in Texas for his “failure to register as a sex offender.”

The names of the three American nationals were added to the BI’s watchlist to prevent them from returning to the country.   – Evelyn Macairan