SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Rhode Island man who appeared to fake his death and flee the United States to avoid rape charges is scheduled to be sentenced Monday on one of two rape convictions in Utah..

Nicholas Rossi, 38, faces between five years and life in prison when sentenced Monday by District Judge Barry Lawrence in Salt Lake City..

The sentence is the اولین مورد از دو برنامه ریزی شده برای روسی پس از محکومیت او separately in August and September of raping two women in northern Utah in 2008.. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov.. 4 for the second conviction, also for five years to life in prison..

In August, jurors found Rossi guilty of rape after a three-day trial in which his accuser and her parents each took the stand.. Rossi did not testify on his own behalf..

It took more than a decade from the time of the rapes to his convictions.. Utah authorities began searching for Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, when he was identified in 2018 through a decade-old DNA rape kit tied to the other case.. He was among thousands of rape suspects identified and later charged when Utah made a push to clear its rape kit backlog..

Months after he was charged in that case, an online obituary claimed Rossi died on Feb.. 29, 2020, of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.. But police in his home state of Rhode Island, along with his former lawyer and a former foster family, cast doubt on whether he was dead..

He was arrested in Scotland the following year while receiving treatment for COVID-19.. Hospital staff recognized his distinctive tattoos — including the crest of Brown University inked on his shoulder, اگرچه او هرگز شرکت نکرد - از یک اطلاعیه اینترپل..

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He was extradited to Utah in January 2024 after a protracted court battle.. At the time, Rossi insisted he was an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight who was being framed.. بازرسان می‌گویند که حداقل ده‌ها نام مستعار را که روسی در طول سال‌ها برای فرار از دستگیری استفاده می‌کرد شناسایی کرده‌اند.

در اولین محاکمه خود در یوتا، وکیل عمومی روسی ادعای تجاوز جنسی را رد کرد و از هیئت منصفه خواست بیش از حد در مورد حرکت او در خارج از کشور مطالعه نکنند. Craigslist.. آنها شروع به ملاقات کردند و در عرض چند هفته نامزد کردند..

او شهادت داد که روسی از او خواسته است که برای تاریخ و تعمیرات ماشین پول بپردازد، 1000 دلار به او قرض دهد تا او اخراج نشود و برای خرید حلقه های نامزدی آنها بدهی بپذیرد. او بلافاصله پس از نامزدی آنها دشمنی کرد و یک شب پس از اینکه او سال ها بعد او را متهم کرد که پلیس او را به خانه برده بود به او تجاوز کرد. زن دیگری در یوتا در همان زمان..

قربانی در آن پرونده بلافاصله پس از حمله روسی به او در آپارتمانش در اورم به پلیس مراجعه کرد. زن به آنجا رفته بود تا پولی را جمع‌آوری کند که گفته بود برای خرید رایانه از او دزدیده است. اتهامات کلاهبرداری در اوهایو، جایی که او به اتهامات مربوط به رابطه جنسی در سال 2008 محکوم شد.

گروور از Ft.. Collins، کلرادو گزارش داد.