Artur Samarin/Asher Potts; phony high school student
Pat sends us a link to Fox News which tells the story of Artur Samarin, a 23-year-old Ukainian who had overstayed his visa, so he decided to pretend that he is Asher Potts, a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania honors high school student;
Police say he pretended to be Harrisburg High School student Asher Potts, who had a 4.16 grade-point average and was in the National Honor Society. Samarin was actively involved at the school, working with a student advisory group on a food bank, and a member of the school’s [Junior]ROTC and Naval Sea Cadet programs.
Police say he had a Pennsylvania driver’s license in Potts’ name when he was arrested.
He’s looking at identity theft charges. I wonder where Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been on this guy.
Category: Crime
No doubt they’ll want to demand Apple unlock his iPhone too.
Do not wish to nitpick, but is that a VSM in that pile of bling on his left boob?
ID theft on some high school kid is about as rotten as you can get.
If you’re talking about that yellow ribbon, then no. I don’t see any green and there are only two vertical bars in the middle.
No real military awards in that rack. All of those are legitimate NJROTC awards. Artur Samarin on the other hand…totally illegitimate.
Don’t he look purdier than a South American general in all that bling and sash.
I hope he gets hard jail time under the careful and thoughtful tutelage of Bubba, Thor, Tiny and Julio. With frequent colo-rectal straightening exams.
I was going to go off an a rant about the sloppy reporting with this, but it turns out a lot of the details are being withheld in the interest of student privacy. This is apparently even though Samarin is a 23-year-old liar and identity thief who was attending the high school under false pretenses.
Yes, but he has feelings, dammit!
In answer to the question above, visa overstays are deemed “non-targets” at ICE unless there is a criminal connection. Under this administration a lot of aliens are being placed basically off limits. It’s not the troops fault, they would love to arrest and deport all illegals, but they are under orders. It’s gotten so bad that when they do find a legitimate target, if there’s 4 others in the house that are non-criminal immigration violators, they have to either ignore them, or at most give them a notice to appear and let them walk. The main reason the immigration system is “broken” is because congress and the president want it that way.
hopefully when ‘murica is made grate again we can allow iCE to do their job of deportation…but sadly that is probably a pipe dream. at most we’ll probably get a demand of 10-15k new ICE agents to NOT deport anyone.
I would be very interested to know who the real Asher Potts is, I served in Vietnam with Cpl Jerry Potts, a black Marine from Harrisburg. He was my squad leader, a good Marine and a good person, he died in a rice paddy in Nov 1966. SF.
On the other hand his Babyface looks will make him very popular in lock up. Bruiser Log Sweetman is going to rip his sphincter asunder!!!
The 23 year old will most likely miss the Harrisburg High School Senior Prom.
I like Artur Samarin/Asher Potts.
Everyone lies in high school, no? I’m in my 50s and still have the fact that I wrestled in high school in my speaker bios. if you count 11th and 12th grade, this isn’t supported by evidence but it is still wrestling, isn’t it?
I am a wrestler though. You can scroll down to my yearbook photo in the following link and just ignore that my yearbook says that I only wrestled until 10th grade
https://thetruthaboutsocnetlies.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/revisiting-msg-jim-hetricks-support-of-the-coward-john-giduck/
40 years later and my two years of high school wrestling is still on my resume. hopefully, 40 years from now, my “mens’ room modified wrestling” won’t be though.
sincerely
John “Faker 6” Giduck
I suspect that the fathers of several young ladies may soon be trying to post his bail. Right after buying some stout rope.
This one keeps getting better (or worse);
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/27/ukrainian-man-who-posed-as-high-school-student-charged-with-sex-assault.html?intcmp=hplnws
he’s now been arrested on sex abuse charges, since he was having a relationship with an underage girl….
Scary.