Grown man arrested after posing as model high school student for four years

A 23-year-old Ukrainian national has been arrested in the US after allegedly posing as a high school student for the past four years.

Grown man arrested after posing as model high school student for four years

Artur Samarin was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly assuming a new identity as student ’Asher Potts’. He is said to have enrolled as Potts at the John Harris High School in Pennsylvania in 2012 after his visa to stay in the US expired.

As ’Potts’, Samarin was said to be a model pupil in the high school and was even a member of the National Honor Society. He also had an extremely high grade point average at 4.16.

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