Ex-Marine Pemberton deported from PhilippinesThe Philippines deported former U.S. Marine Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton September 13.Pemberton, 25, tested negative for COVID-19.
Philippine immigration authorities and United States military personnel escorted the former marine - handcuffed and masked - to a U.S.
military aircraft to be transported back to America, the Associated Press reported.Pemberton served nearly six years for the 2014 murder of Jennifer Laude, a 26-year-old Filipina transgender woman, before Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte pardoned him September 7.Duterte defied his own office's blocking of an Olongapo City Regional Trial Court's order to the Bureau of Corrections to release Pemberton on September.