Sex Offender Poses As Royalty, Tours School

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Sex Offender Poses As Royalty, Tours School

POSTED: 6:31 am EST January 13, 2006

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OAK PARK HEIGHTS, Minn. -- He posed as a prospective student and tried to pass himself off as a member of a royal family from Europe -- until some student journalists uncovered his past.

Police said "Caspian" visited Stillwater Area High School in Minnesota three times. He told students he was 17 and that he was "Caspian James Chrichton Stuart the Fourth," the "Fifth Duke of Cleveland."

At the school newspaper, student journalists thought that if "Caspian's" story were true, it would make an interesting feature. They eventually found his picture on a Web site -- for Florida's registry of sex offenders. (Click here to see his sex offender flyer.)

KARE-TV reported that it turned out he was 22-year-old Joshua Adam Gardner, who was convicted of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in Winona County in 2003. He's now being held on a probation violation.


Stillwater Principal Chris Lennox said there's no indication that Gardner assaulted or seriously bothered anyone at the school.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

"Fifth Duke of Cleveland."

 

[vrbryant]

Genius.

 

[AKAK]

You know my rule... never fake a title above Baron.

Fucking fifth Duke of Cleveland... reminds me of the PJ O'Rourke story, King of Sandusky Ohio.