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Comment by Boris on July 13, 2017 at 11:13pm

Kareem Ali Nadir Jones spent nearly three years in Ohio juvenile correctional facilities before authorities discovered he wasn't who he said he was -- nor was he a juvenile.

Kareem Ali Nadir Jones.

Cuyahoga County prosecutors said Jones, who was 19 years old when police in Franklin County arrested him on drug charges in 2006, stole the identity of Brandan Lamar Feaster -- his childhood friend -- to avoid being prosecuted as an adult.

Jones, now 22, was transferred in March to the Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correctional Facility in Highland Hills, and shortly thereafter a call from an anonymous tipster revealed his true identity.

He was indicted last month in Common Pleas Court on charges of identity fraud, tampering with records and theft. The theft charge was lodged in an attempt to hold him responsible for the high cost of housing him for 92 days as a juvenile in Cuyahoga County, a prosecutor's spokesman said. That includes $5,000 in medical expenses and $236 a day -- nearly three times the cost of adult incarceration.

Jones was first arrested during a routine traffic stop in Franklin County in April 2006, when police discovered 1,000 grams of powder cocaine, 100 grams of crack cocaine and two guns in his car.

When asked for his name, Jones told police he was 16 and that his name was Brandan Feaster -- a close friend from his hometown of Spartanburg, S.C. A spokeswoman for the Franklin County prosecutor's office said Jones provided officers with a Pennsylvania birth certificate identifying him as Feaster.

Jones was prosecuted as a juvenile and sentenced to four years

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