Immigration Commissioner Andrea Domingo identified the American as James OBrien, 44, who was arrested after his mother-in-law and wife asked the bureau to arrest him for being an undesirable alien.
Remedios Villanueva, 46, claimed in her complaint filed with the Parañaque prosecutors office that her son-in-law tried to stab her after hitting her face with a hard object which caused her to fall and lose consciousness.
She also said that when she regained consciousness, she ran out of the house, but OBrien chased her with a knife until she managed to enter a neighbors house.
Villanueva claimed that she was contacting the police over the phone after seeing that her daughter, Cristina OBrien, was being mauled inside their home when she was attacked.
In her written complaint to the BI, Ms. OBrien complained that she had been experiencing "nightmares" from the time she married the American ten years ago because of the latters "violent character." Rey Arquiza