A court in Detroit has dropped charges against Hussein Al-Kawaher, a 33-year-old Saudi citizen known as “the man with the pot,” but has demanded that he leave US territories.

James Haworth, Al-Kawaher’s lawyer, said: “He was notified to go to the Department of Customs and Border Protection to remove his name from the list of those arrested and go back to his country.”

Detroit general prosecutor office said Al-Kawaher did not give a rational explanation for the two missing pages of his passport and the pot found with his luggage. “This aroused the suspicion of authorities, compelling them to arrest.”