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| Friday, 09-Aug-2002 13:25:51 EDT |
| Alleged
US-Filipino drug dealer nabbed in Tarlac
City AN AMERICAN fugitive
wanted for drug trafficking in his home
country was arrested Thursday by agents
of the Bureau of Immigration and
Deportation (BID) at his hiding place in
Tarlac City.
Immigration Commissioner Andrea
Domingo identified the fugitive as Mario
Paras Flores, who has been charged with
drug trafficking before a US district
court in California on a number of counts
of drug trafficking.
The US Embassy in Manila, which sought
the arrest of Flores, said that the
former Filipino fled to the Philippines
in November last year to evade
prosecution.
Domingo said that Flores had been
charged with conspiring with several
other suspects in the distribution of shabu
(metamphetamine hydrochloride) in the
states of Hawaii and Illinois.
Federal authorities said that on
November 29 last year, Flores mailed a
package containing shabu to a
co-conspirator in Chicago after which the
former received money via wire transfer
as payment for the shipment.
Aside from distributing the prohibited
drug, Flores was also charged with three
counts of possessing a total of 650 grams
of shabu.
Domingo said that Flores will be
deported for being an undocumented alien,
as his US passport was cancelled by the
US State Department.
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