In Pennsylvania, tried a Ukrainian, who for several years pretended to be a student
A court in the US state of Pennsylvania sentenced 24-year-old Ukrainian citizen Artur Samarin to 2 imprisonment months for forging passports and social security cards with which the young man lived in the country 4 of the year, posing as a schoolboy.
At the same time, next week the Ukrainian is likely to face deportation.
As the investigation established, in 2012, Samarin became a student of the Harrisburg School of forged documents in the name of Asher Potts, after he had finished his visa.
Posing as a 18-year-old high school student, the young man was actively involved in school life.
In May 2014, he became a member of the National Honor Society, a federal organization of high school students. The corresponding certificate was presented to him by state Congressional Democrat Patty Kim.
Earlier this year—shortly before his arrest in February—Potts took part in a discussion about crime in Harrisburg at a youth forum.
When detained, Samarin was also found with fake driver's licenses to the name of the same Asher Potts.
In addition, a young man is accused of seducing an 15-year-old girl. Altogether, he passes criminal episodes accused of 6.
As previously wrote ForumDaily, Arthur Samarin cd his "guardians". The Potts family, which sheltered Samarin in 2012, told reporters that they had informed the police about the suspicious behavior of their ward. Samarin's "guardians" were frightened that he could arrange school shooting or attack his classmates. “He constantly said that he intended to deal with his teachers and some classmates. He said that he would start shooting or explode everything, ”Stephanie Potts told reporters.
According to Potts, they appealed to the FBI in November last year, and it was then that the authorities became interested in this unusual student. The investigation, as already mentioned, ended February 23 with the arrest of a pseudo-schoolboy.
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