{"id":54114,"date":"2025-10-01T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/54114\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:24:08","slug":"ohio-man-posed-as-teen-for-16-months-pleads-guilty-after-school-movie-like-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/54114\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio man posed as teen for 16 months, pleads guilty after school \u2018movie-like\u2019 deception"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anna Krause had a teenage son who faced off against Labrador-Sierra in a football game last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt definitely is a wild \u2018movie-like\u2019 story,\u201d Krause told the Independent.<\/p>\n

Labrador-Sierra\u2019s deception only began to unravel in May, when Evelyn Camacho, the mother of their 2-year-old, got wind of the hoax.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was questioning what the truth was\u201d, Camacho told the New York Post, \u201cdid he lie to me about being an adult? Or did he lie to them about being a child?\u201d<\/p>\n

Camacho called her ex-fiancee\u2019s legal guardians, Kathy and Brad Mefferd, who searched his room \u2013 discovering a gun, cash and false documents.<\/p>\n

The Mefferds had believed Labrador-Sierra was a homeless trafficking victim when they took him in.<\/p>\n

\"Labrador-SierraLabrador-Sierra was actually a teenager when he entered the US in 2019. Photo \/ US Department of Justice<\/p>\n

He reportedly provided false documents when enrolling in the school, having acquired a birth certificate that listed his birthdate as December 2, 2007.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a>, Perrysburg Schools said Labrador-Sierra \u201cwove a complex tapestry of lies \u2013 carefully designed to manipulate systems and deceive individuals at every level\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we continue to pull at those threads, more of the picture is coming into view \u2013 revealing just how calculated and far-reaching his deception truly was.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is still unclear why Labrador-Sierra decided to reinvent himself as a teenager.<\/p>\n

Maria Ermie, leader of education group Perrysburg Stands Up, was suspicious of the man\u2019s motivations, noting \u201cthere are learning opportunities, education opportunities as an adult\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo again, it leads you to believe that there were nefarious reasons for him wanting to be in a school district with minors, not only misleading the young girls that he\u2019s dating, but also their parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several sources told the Independent Labrador-Sierra dated \u201cfellow\u201d students while he attended the school.<\/p>\n

He will be sentenced on January 23 (local time) and faces 15 years\u2019 jail for possessing firearms, 10 years for falsifying documents to purchase firearms and five years for falsifying immigration documents.<\/p>\n

Due to his status as an illegal migrant, he has been transferred to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna Krause had a teenage son who faced off against Labrador-Sierra in a football game last year. \u201cIt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41813,26666,74,806,1558,45938,29266,1359,2082,3368,42,19689,5158,3234,130,45937,43,13724,3367,24173,4062,5163,4054,131,40,38,41,39,6923,379],"class_list":["post-54114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-41813","tag-24yearold","tag-after","tag-as","tag-been","tag-con","tag-deception","tag-described","tag-for","tag-guilty","tag-headlines","tag-incredible","tag-man","tag-months","tag-more","tag-movielike","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-pleads","tag-posed","tag-school","tag-teen","tag-teenager","tag-than","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-what","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}