Your social media accounts are not much different from the accounts you already have. One photograph at a monument, another goes for a walk, another eats at a restaurant and focuses on the food. The difference is that you almost certainly Interpol and FBI haven’t been looking for him for 17 years to put him in jail.
This is the story of the TikTok Fugitive, who calls himself that on all his social networks. His other nickname is ‘Raccoon Kudzu’. He shares his life not only on this channel, but also on Instagram or Twitter, and tells about his daily life in different countries where he took refuge to escape from the North American authorities.
Kahraman claims that the accusations against him regarding his son’s kidnapping are unfounded. And he has a website where he explains his case in detail and includes legal documents that protect him. He was a fugitive in many countries where the US did not have an extradition order. like remote Caribbean islands or Russia, The country where he currently lives and uploads his videos.
his story
His real name is Chad Zachary Hower, a man born in Titusville, Pennsylvania, who works as a software developer at Microsoft. He married and moved to live in Tennessee with his wife. However, she divorced in 2001 and started living in Cyprus. As a result of this marriage, a son named Aarys was born in 1996.
Chad Hower claims that after the divorce, his mother engaged in various neglectful behaviors, even hiding the child so that he could not contact her. And after a few warnings from the judge to the mother in 2005, She gained custody of Aarys and took him to live with her in Europe.
“Aarys’ mother went to live in Pennsylvania after she lost custody. Aarys has never lived in Pennsylvania and has no ties other than a few family members. But he filed kidnapping charges against me in Pennsylvania,” Chad explains.
They continue on their network: “I flew with Aarys to the USA in June 2006 to take him on summer visits with his mother until school started again in Cyprus in September. We separated in Boston and he flew with escort to Cleveland to be with his mother. “I moved to Seattle because I was working at Microsoft at the time.”.
According to her statement, the mother refused to return her child in August, when it was her turn to give the child to Chad. In fact, a court order was required to force him to do so. And Chad himself adds a copy of the aforementioned order to his page. The judge, surnamed White, ordered the boy to get on a plane and fly to Cyprus.
contradictions
That’s where everything gets complicated. Because contradictions begin. Chad says he was in the United States: “Just for a week in 2006. I left the country in mid-June 2006 and haven’t been back since. During this trip, I never entered the borders of Pennsylvania. This is an important fact because the kidnapping charge The incident is said to have occurred on November 6, 2006. And since I haven’t been to the US since June 2006, this is impossible as it is presented. “Even the FBI contradicts itself in the sealed indictment,” he says, adding the indictment prepared by the American federal police.
This is where Chad says there is a conspiracy against him. “The same Judge White, just 2 months later, on November 6th, participated in the intentional creation of false kidnapping charges against me, claiming that Aarys’ whereabouts were unknown. although both he and his mother had full contact details for him in Cyprus,” he says.
From there, the court issued an arrest warrant for him. “This was done secretly, behind closed doors, in the Federal Grand Jury. “I was given no notice and no opportunity for my legal defense to be present,” Hower says..
“The FBI publicized this widely to sway public opinion to their side. I was featured on the front page of the Erie Times (Pennsylvania’s third largest city) twice. I also appeared in AP news. In Pittsburgh and Philadelphia newspapers, as well as radio and television news at the state and regional level. In fact, my family learned that I was arrested in Bulgaria by seeing it on the evening news.”
The escape begins
Because Chad was arrested in Bulgaria in 2009 when he went to the European country to give a conference. The Americans requested extradition but did not receive it. This was where the flight of computer scientists around the world began. From Europe he went to the Caribbean, to the island of San Cristobal. He suffered from kidney disease that nearly killed him.
From the Caribbean he traveled to Russia, where he currently resides. And there he received a residence permit. He took advantage of the geopolitical situation, the tension between the two superpowers, the war… and He was able to walk freely through the streets of Moscow, where he shared his adventures.
His son, however, is still listed as missing, but (who does not want to have a relationship with his mother and changed his name to Alex) is active on social networks and even has a website promoting himself. claims must be live and visible to everyone. However, the United States did not withdraw the search warrant against Chad, who continued to escalate his life every day as he fled Moscow. The fugitive is still at large and Interpol can’t even smell him.