Manila, March 21 -- The Bureau of Immigration (BI) recently arrested an American tourist for undesirable behavior and a Japanese criminal gang member in separate operations.

In a news release on Friday, BI Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado said operatives of the BI's fugitive search unit (FSU) arrested Evan Ronald Berlin, 31, at his residence along Zobel Street, Poblacion, Makati City on March 14.

Viado issued a mission order authorizing the FSU operatives to arrest the foreigner after a deportation complaint was filed against him for being an undesirable alien.

The case stemmed from allegations that Berlin beat the complainant inside a five-star hotel in Paranaque City on March 9. The victim lost consciousness and sustained injuries fro...