{"id":406012,"date":"2026-07-21T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406012\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:24:09","slug":"captured-rhode-island-fugitive-was-running-biotech-company-in-la-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406012\/","title":{"rendered":"Captured Rhode Island fugitive was running biotech company in LA \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Rhode Island fugitive physician who was recently captured after being on the run for more than two decades had been living in Los Angeles, where he ran a biotech company, law enforcement sources confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Dr. Ronald Fischer was accused of raping a woman on his boat, named &#8220;Lion King,&#8221; in 2003. He was taken into custody by the U.S. Coast Guard on a yacht named &#8220;The Silver Lining&#8221; off the coast of New York and New Jersey last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/rhode-island-most-wanted-fugitive-caught-coast-ny-nj\/6526394\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC New York reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite leaving Rhode Island during his criminal trial in 2005, Fischer was convicted in absentia of first-degree sexual assault and has since also been wanted for failing to appear and flight to avoid prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the U.S. Marshals Service, the FBI and Rhode Island police spent two days since Tuesday exploring new leads about Fischer before ending up in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Marshals Service said the 56-foot sailboat that Fischer was caught on was registered under an alias he used: &#8220;Richard Graydon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to law enforcement sources, he went by Richard Graydon while running a biotech company on Olympic Boulevard. <\/p>\n<p>The company reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he was dismissed on Friday for reasons not related to his work there.<\/p>\n<p>NBCLA has reached out to the company for comment but has not received a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Rhode Island fugitive physician who was recently captured after being on the run for more than two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3552,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-406012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}