Former ICRT disc jockey Charles Mack (
"By law, we need to deport him," said Tony Tsao (
After being accused by his wife Chang Wei-chin (
However, officers from the Foreign Affairs Department interrogated him again on Friday night, after which they ordered Mack to leave the country.
Tsao said that according to the Communicable Disease Prevention Law (
Police said that Mack reported to the city police's Ta-an precinct on Friday night after his wife claimed that he had gone missing.
Mack left the police building with no comment to the public.
The 40-year-old entertainer, originally from Memphis, Tennessee, started his career in Taiwan as a dancer. ICRT laid Mack off three years ago after he invited friends to the studio, violating studio rules which say that only staff members are allowed to enter the booths.
Mack and his wife started a dance company called "The Chocolate Factory," -- named after his DJ pseudonym "DJ Chocolate" -- in Taipei last June.
The company closed at the end of last year.
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