American rape suspect who allegedly faked own death and posed as a U.K. citizen is extradited back to the U.S.
An American who allegedly faked his own death to dodge a rape allegation in Utah was removed from the United Kingdom and is headed back the United States, officials said Friday.
An American who allegedly faked his own death to dodge a rape allegation in Utah was removed from the United Kingdom and is headed back the United States, officials said Friday.
U.S. authorities have long sought the extradition of a 36-year-old man they know as Nicholas Rossi, though he's also used the names Nicholas Alahverdian and most recently Arthur Knight, authorities have said.
The man believed to be Rossi turned up in a Scottish hospital, suffering from Covid, in 2022. He then spent months trying to convince authorities that he was an orphan from Ireland who has never been to the U.S., although a Scottish judge eventually ruled he was in fact Nicholas Rossi.
When asked about Rossi on Friday, a Scottish police spokesperson said: "We assisted partner agencies with the extradition of a 36-year-old man.”
Rossi is wanted in connection with the rape of a former girlfriend in Orem, Utah, in 2008 and an attack in Ohio in 2018, the Utah County Attorney’s Office has said.
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