If you remember back in January, Vice posted a story that I shared here about an Israeli-backed militiaman and murderer who kidnapped a journalist and two Irish UN peacekeepers in Lebanon back in the 1980s and ended up selling ice cream to children in Detroit.

The author back then said that the guy who kidnapped him was called Mahmoud Bazzi and that he’s currently living in Detroit and works as an ice cream man. Well it looks like the US authorities have finally arrested him and are planning to deport him on immigration charges. Bazzi is denying the charges and claims “he once falsely confessed to the slayings because he feared a Lebanese militia would kill him unless he lied”.

Federal agents have arrested a man the Irish government calls a suspect in the abduction, torture and killing of two Irish soldiers serving as United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon 34 years ago.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesdsay arrested Mahmoud Bazzi at his home in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn. The agency arrested Bazzi for “administrative immigration violations” and not directly in connection to the killings in Lebanon, spokeswoman Gillian Christensen told The Associated Press. She said he would be held “pending removal proceedings.” [HuffingtonPost]