OPINION
CHIN, District Judge.
On December 23, 2006, defendant Kenneth Thomas, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was flying from London to New Zealand to meet his common law wife for the holidays. His plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport ("LAX") for what was scheduled to be a three-hour layover. Instead, United States authorities arrested him on an indictment that had been filed in this District three months earlier, charging him with illegally...
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