Who is Nicholas Rossi? Man faked his Identity as Arthur Knight to escape prosecution

Nicholas Rossi, a US man, faked his Identity as Arthur Knight to escape prosecution. Let’s see who is Nicholas Rossi and why he faked his identity as Arthur Knight in detail.

Who is Nicholas Rossi?

Nicholas Alahverdian, an American sex offender, was born on July 11, 1987. He was a 35-year-old man, who faked his own death in 2020. He also goes by the names Nicholas Rossi and Nicholas Alahverdian.

Rossi claimed that he was mistreated and neglected by the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), a social service organization in Rhode Island. According to US authorities, Rossi also was known as Nicholas Alahverdian in Rhode Island, where he participated in local politics and opposed the state’s child welfare system.

Way back then,

Rossi informed the US media in December 2019 that his non-Hodgkin lymphoma was in a late stage and that he only had a few weeks to live. According to several sources, he passed away in February 2020.

According to court documents, he was wanted by the police at the time concerning an alleged rape in Utah. He was wanted by law enforcement in several US states at the time of his arrest in Glasgow.

Nicholas Rossi was detained in a Scottish hospital last year, according to a court decision. The individual said his name was Arthur Knight and said he had been the victim of mistaken identity. However, Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard that his tattoos and fingerprints matched Rossi’s.

Why Rossi faked his identity?

Rossi is being sought by US authorities due to charges of rape and sexual assault. According to the court, Rossi, the American rape suspect who was detained in Scotland on the COVID ward faked his own death. He allegedly staged his own funeral and fled to Scotland to avoid being caught. He had spent the previous year adamantly claiming to be Arthur Knight, an Irish orphan who had never visited the US.

Nicholas Rossi’s accusations of mistaken identification are rejected by Sheriff Norman McFadyen.
However, he was tracked via an Interpol arrest order to a hospital in Glasgow where he was receiving treatment for COVID-19 in December 2021.

Since being detained, he has maintained that he was mistaken for someone else, that his name is Arthur Knight, and that he is an Irish orphan who has never been to the US. Rossi said that to frame him, he had received distinctive tattoos that matched those on Rossi’s arms while he was asleep in a Glasgow hospital.

Sheriff’s statement:

But after a three-day hearing, Sheriff Norman McFadyen stated “: “I am ultimately satisfied on the balance of probabilities that Mr. Knight is indeed Nicholas Rossi, the person sought for extradition by the United States.

Rossi’s claims of having been the victim of mistaken identity were dismissed by Sheriff McFadyen as “implausible” and “fanciful,” and he added that his frequent name changes were “highly suspicious” and “consistent with someone who was hiding from someone or something.” The Scottish courts will decide whether to extradite him to the US for trial during an extradition hearing.

Pieces of evidence: Tattoos and fingerprints

Judges at Edinburgh Sheriff Court determined that this story was untrue and that the individual concerned was the one sought by US authorities. This week, three days of evidence were heard as lawyers attempted to determine the man’s identity.

Advocate Depute Paul Harvey called ten witnesses, including hospital workers, police officers, and fingerprint experts, all of whom were sure that the guy they had arrested in Glasgow was the man identified by the Americans as Rossi.

Wanted man unmasked:

Two fingerprint specialists from Police Scotland determined distinguishing features in “Arthur Knight’s” prints, claiming that they were “exact” matches for prints recovered from Rossi. During the manhunt, a nurse from Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital described “distinctive” tattoos on her patient’s biceps that matched photos published by Interpol.

A decision is anticipated when the defendant in the Nicholas Rossi extradition case appears before the Edinburgh Sheriff and Justice of the Peace Court. US authorities are attempting to extradite Nicholas Rossi, who they believe to be a rape suspect. Rossi is accused of leaving the country in 2017 in order to avoid charges of identity theft and fraud as well as a sexual assault charge from Utah from eight years prior.
The person, who uses at least ten other names, like Nicholas Alahverdian and Arthur Knight, denies he is Rossi.

Rossi’s plan to escape arrest:

Rossi made a series of claims to escape arrest. He claimed to the sheriff that prior to being sent to the hospital, he was tattoo-free and that when he “awoke” from a coma, he discovered that his body had been tattooed while he was unconscious.

He said, in a further bizarre turn of events, that only his fingerprints matched those on the Interpol warrant because they were taken in Glasgow by an NHS staff. He asserted that while he was under anesthesia, a man only known as “Patrick” grabbed the prints, and transmitted them to a dishonest official in Utah, who then sent them along to Interpol.

In response to Rossi’s assertion that he had Sheriff look into the case. On Rossi’s insistence that he was Arthur Knight and not the man wanted in the US, the sheriff added: “It seems to me highly suspicious that the change of names went through a number of permutations. That seems to me consistent with someone who was hiding from someone or something.”

Rossi cried and wheezed inconsolably at one point during the proceedings as he described his time in a Scottish prison as “challenging and dystopian.” He mouthed “I love you” to his wife Miranda, who has stood by him and insists that Arthur was mistaken for her husband, according to Miranda. The man’s wife Miranda Knight Brown told the court “the last 3 months have been hell”, and caused a change “in the man I love”. She said she’d seen no identification he’s Nicholas Rossi, or that he was in Utah in 2008.

US extradition bid

One of the strangest cases ever heard in a Scottish court, this one has been delayed a lot. The decision made by Sheriff Norman McFadyen today ends the protracted identification dispute, disavows all mention of the alias “Arthur Knight,” and opens the door for full extradition proceedings, which are likely to begin early in the next year. American officials want him extradited to stand trial.

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