MANILA, (PNA) — US Marshalls are expected to be in the country to fetch a British national, considered as a high profile fugitive, as soon as the Bureau of Immigration issues the order for his summary deportation.
In a statement, BI Officer-in-Charge Siegfred Mison said that 53-year old Gypsy Nirvana is wanted by federal authorities in the US where he operated a business in manufacturing, importing and exporting marijuana.
He is now detained at the BI detention center in Bicutan, Taguig following his arrest last Aug. 27 at the Subic freeport in Olongapo by the bureau’s fugitive search unit.
Mison issued a mission order for the foreigner’s arrest after the US Embassy informed the bureau that a US district court in Maine issued a warrant against Nirvana where he was indicted for “conspiracy to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana; conspiracy to import marijuana; and conspiracy; and conspiracy to export marijuana from the US to England.”
The BI official added that for several years the suspect profited hugely from his UK-based a marijuana seed auction business, which catered mostly to American customers who transacted with him either via the Internet or by mail and money wire transfers.
It was several informants, who were Nirvana’s former associates that tipped the US authorities about his activities after DEA agents conducted raids on several marijuana plantations in Maine that resulted to their arrest.
On July 11, 2011, customs agents at the Boston Logan International Airport in Maine intercepted a UK-bound shipment of marijuana seeds that were allegedly purchased by Nirvana.