Bureau of Immigration officials in Davao City have arrested an American pedophile wanted by authorities in Connecticut for child molestation and child pornography.
BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said 33-year-old Jason Eric Keller was collared by immigration agents inside the BI’s district office in Davao City while he was applying for an extension of his stay as a tourist.
“He seemed unaware that we have information about his crimes and that he is already in our watchlist of wanted foreign fugitives,” Morente said.
He added that the American “will be deported immediately as his presence here poses a serious threat to our children.”
According to the BI chief, Keller was issued an arrest warrant by a US district court in Connecticut in December last year after he was charged with enticing a child to engage in sexual activity and receiving child pornographic materials.
Morente said it was on April this year that the US government sought the BI’s help in locating and arresting him.
BI Intelligence chief Fortunato Manahan Jr. disclosed that Keller, who used the alias “Eddie Buttered Toast,” arrived in the country in February 2017.
“He is already an undocumented alien at the time of his arrest due to the cancellation of his passport by the US State Department,” Manahan said.
Keller is temporarily detained at the holding facility of the BI-Davao pending his deportation. (Jun Ramirez)
