A U.S. fugitive accused of faking suicide and fleeing the country to escape rape charges was extradited from Scotland to Utah, where he was jailed, according to prison records.
Nicholas Rossi, 36, was booked into the Davis County Jail Friday afternoon on two counts of felony rape and will likely be transferred to Utah County for trial, according to the Utah County Attorney's Office. His trial date has not yet been set.
Rossi, whose real name is Nicholas Alaverdian, has been named as a suspect in the 2008 sexual assault of a 21-year-old woman in Orem, Utah, after he was identified through a DNA test kit in 2018. It is arranged.
He was charged with felony rape in 2008 for sexually assaulting a 26-year-old ex-girlfriend, and faces multiple other charges in Rhode Island and Ohio for alleged domestic violence, sexual abuse and fraud. A letter has been submitted.
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Nicholas Rossi pictured leaving the Sheriff of Edinburgh and a Scottish Justice of the Peace Court during an extradition hearing on June 30, 2023. (Andrew Milligan/PA Image via Getty Images, File)
Rossi is believed to have faked his own death and fled the country, and an obituary posted online states that Rossi died of terminal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on February 29, 2020.
The fugitive allegedly hid under at least 10 aliases while evading authorities. He was eventually arrested in Scotland in 2021 after being treated in hospital for COVID-19 and claiming to be an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight.
Rossi lost his extradition bid and was taken into custody by federal marshals in December. On Friday, he was booked into a Utah prison, wanted on suspicion of felony rape. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images, File)
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In August, a Scottish judge called Rossi “evasive and manipulative as well as dishonest and deceitful” and ordered his extradition to the United States to proceed.
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Rossi was taken into custody by federal marshals in December after losing his appeal.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
