A Rhode Island man who faked his personal dying to evade intercourse assault and fraud prices has been discovered alive in Scotland, studies stated.
Nicholas Alahverdian, who additionally goes by the final identify Rossi, supposedly died at age 32 in February 2020 from non-Hodgkin lymphoma, however turned up final month at a Glasgow hospital, the place he was on a ventilator for COVID-19, the Windfall Journal reported Wednesday.
Hospital staffers solely realized that Alahverdian, who was residing below the identify Arthur Knight, was wished by Interpol when authorities turned up final month on the infirmary and arrested him, the Scottish Solar reported.
The fugitive was on the run from prison prices in Utah and Ohio, and faked his dying so he may keep away from prosecution, the Utah County Lawyer’s Workplace instructed the Windfall Journal.
“He has been taken into custody and the Utah County Lawyer’s Workplace is working with federal and worldwide companies to extradite Mr. Rossi again to Utah,” the company stated in an announcement.
Alahverdian is suspected in numerous sexual assault instances in Utah and all through the US and can be accused of bilking $200,000 from his former foster mom in Ohio and $60,000 from Kathryn Heckendorn, his ex-wife, the Windfall Journal reported.
Weeks earlier than his “dying” in February 2020, Alahverdian urged native Rhode Island reporters to write down about his impending demise, asserting that his work crusading towards the kid welfare system made it newsworthy, the outlet stated.
When the journalists failed to write down about it, he grew indignant, the outlet stated.
An obituary written about Alahverdian’s “dying” known as him a “warrior” for kids and acknowledged his final phrases had been “Concern not and run towards the bliss of the solar.”
An individual who claimed to be his spouse requested lawmakers to take part in elaborate memorials of his life, however the plans had been squashed when phrase unfold that Alahverdian was probably nonetheless alive.
“At first I didn’t consider it,” Heckendorn instructed the outlet of the second a Utah public security official known as to inform her Alahverdian had been captured.
“I stated this must be Nick; he in all probability employed somebody to get in contact with me to scope out the state of affairs, as a result of that’s the very particular sort of deception he would do.”
Alahverdian is going through extradition proceedings within the UK, however it’s unclear when he can be introduced again stateside.
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