The Dirección de Migración y Extranjería (Costa Rica’s immigration service) announced the deportation of Kirk William Owen, convicted in the United States for child molestation.
The deportation of Owen followed Migración’s cancellation of his tourist visa, profiling him as “high risk”.
Immigration director Kathya Rodríguez, said that Owen did not have a residency visa and confirmed his deportation in the early hours of Friday morning, leaving on a commercial flight from the Juan Santamaría (San José) international airport.
In Costa Rica, Owen faces charges of illegal possession of a firearm. Rodríguez said that the Fiscalia will not require Owen’s presence to continue with the case, allowing immigration to send him back to the United States.
Owen was arrested last Monday following an INTERPOL alert.