According to the police report, the agents arrested the expat when he was driving his Porsche Cayenne near San Rafael District, Escazu Canton, San José. 

It was collaborative arrest with the support of agents of the Judicial Investigation Organization, OIJ, and officers of the municipal police of Escazu.

In the operation, the officers on motorcycles and patrols were located in different areas of the canton. Upon detecting the suspect's car, they tracked him down. Then, they ordered the man to pull over and stop his car. 

"Nigh thought until that moment that it was a traffic violation problem and he asked us to issue the ticket and he would pay it immediately at that place," the police said in their report.

Nigh was arrested and taken to the Immigration Apprehension Center in San José, where he must wait for the extradition process to the United States to be completed.

A video of the arrest was published by the Police of the Municipality of Escazu on their social media.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice statement, the case where Nigh is allegedly involved, also includes six more defendants in a telemarketing sweepstakes scheme. Allegedly the suspects victimized people in the U.S., including the elderly.

It was a Costa Rica-based telemarketing scheme that allegedly defrauded victims in the U.S. according to the Justice Department's Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray of the Western District of North Carolina. 

The suspects were charged with 20 counts in the Western District of North Carolina: one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, nine counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and nine counts of international money laundering.

According to the indictment, the suspects ran a telemarketing call center in Costa Rica that defrauded victims into sending money to claim fake 'sweepstakes prizes,' the U.S. Department of Justice said.

“Scamming seniors out of their life savings is deplorable, the majority of elder Americans live on a limited income, so when scammers show up and steal these victims' limited income, our mission is to find perpetrators and bring them to justice,” the Justice Department said in its statement.

The indictment alleges that the defendants called potential victims in the U.S., and told them that they had won a substantial sweepstakes prize. But to claim the prize, the seniors needed to send funds to pay for the prize insurance, fees or customs taxes.

If a victim sent money, telemarketers would call back for more money, telling victims there was an error or the prize, it had increased due to the grand prize winner being disqualified. That requires more insurance payouts, tariffs, taxes and additional customs duties.

This case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the IRS and the FBI, with assistance from Homeland Security, Interpol and the International Bureau of the Department of Justice. While in Costa Rica, the case is being investigated by the Judicial Investigation Organization.

Nigh is the second case of a U.S. citizen arrested this month. A couple of weeks ago, a U.S. citizen, surnamed Kjar-Arnbal, was arrested by the Migration Police due to an alleged arrest warrant against him.