BY JUN RAMIREZ
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The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has deported a suspected American pedophile accused of sexually exploiting girls in Cebu City during his frequent trips to the city.
Commissioner Jaime Morente said 64-year-old Craig Alex Levin was deported last Thursday aboard a chartered special flight of the US Embassy from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
Agents from the US Marshals Service fetched Levin from the airport tarmac where he was brought from his detention cell at the BI Warden Facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City.
Records showed that police operatives arrested Levin at his condominium unit in Cogon Ramos, Cebu City in May last year after he was seen with a 15-year-old girl in his room.
He was arrested after US authorities informed the police that Levin is wanted to stand trial before a US district court in Philadelphia on charges of sexually exploiting minors in the Philippines and for engaging in child sex trafficking.
Levin was subsequently turned over to the BI where he was detained while undergoing deportation proceedings.
US prosecutors have described Levin as a dangerous sexual predator who targeted vulnerable children in the Philippines.
They also alleged in their indictment that Levin used the Internet to entice, and coerce a child into sex trafficking, and that he frequently travelled to the Philippines to engage in illicit sex with minors.
