U.S. Fugitive Who Faked Death and Fled to Europe Is Extradited From Scotland

Nicholas Rossi, a 36-year-old fugitive who tried to pass himself off as an Irish orphan in Scotland before his true identity and alleged criminal past were uncovered in 2021, has reportedly been extradited back to the U.S.

Rossi, also known as Nicholas Alahverdian, Arthur Knight, and allegedly by at least 14 other aliases, left on a plane from a private Scottish airport on Friday to return to the U.S., where he faces rape allegations and more, the BBC reported.

The convicted sex offender infamously faked his death in Rhode Island in 2020, with a fake obituary and news coverage. That obituary cited his newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin lymphoma as the cause of death and claimed that his ashes had been scattered at sea.

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