A FUGITIVE in the United States was finally arrested Wednesday in Barangay Tebeng, Dagupan City after years of hiding in different parts of the Philippines.

The suspect was identified as Brian Thomas Stickney, 46, who has a U.S warrant of arrest for 14 counts of possession of child sex images, which has a U.S court penalty of 40 years per count.

Joint operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), Bureau of Immigration (BI), Pangasinan Police, together with Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, arrested Stickney at 8 a.m. at his rented apartment in Barangay Tebeng.

Stickney has been on the FBI wanted list since 2010.

Sr. Supt. Harris Fama, chief of Detection and Special Operation Division, led the team in the operation they coded “Oplan Pitbull”.

He said the operation plan was named after an online advertisement “Pitbulls for sale” posted by Stickney.

According to BI officials, Stickney is deemed undesirable for being an undocumented, overstaying alien.

A warrant of deportation signed by Immigration Commissioner Ricardo A David Jr. pursuant to a Summary Deportation Order (SDO) that the BI board of commissioners was issued against the Stickney.

“We appeal to responsible citizens to continue assisting us in detecting these (foreign) criminals,” said PNP CIDG’S Chief Superintendent Francisco Uyami.

Fama said FBI agents at the U.S. Embassy in Manila sought the case build-up and probable arrest of the suspect in a communication to Uyami.

Uyami tasked the Chief of Detection and Special Operation Division (DSOD) under Police Senior Superintendent Harris Fama to conduct the operation.

While in the country, he was suspected to have joined a religious group in Ilocos, La Union and Cordillera and used several aliases.

Stickney, who was was with his Filipina wife at the time of his arrest, will be deported soon.

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