Salon.com > jonathan lee riches http://www.salon.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:18:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Weird news: Man who claimed to be Adam Lanza’s uncle has also sued Justin Bieber http://www.salon.com/2012/12/26/weird_news_man_who_claimed_to_be_adam_lanzas_uncle_has_also_sued_justin_bieber/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/26/weird_news_man_who_claimed_to_be_adam_lanzas_uncle_has_also_sued_justin_bieber/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13155260 Most of America did not know who Jonathan Lee Riches was until he emerged in Newtown, Conn. ten days ago, masquerading as the uncle of the Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza. Riches, 35, told reporters that Lanza had been taking the antipsychotic Fanapt, and then posed for a photo at a memorial honoring the victims before outlets eventually caught on.

Now, the Smoking Gun reports that Riches, a Pennsylvania man serving a five-year probation sentence after having been in custody for wire fraud and conspiracy for the past decade, has been arrested by federal authorities for violating his probation. Riches was not allowed to leave "Eastern District judicial boundaries without permission from a judge or his probation officers," the site reports.

Even stranger, though, are Riches' past crimes. The Smoking Gun writes:

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