Alberta man’s staged suicide to avoid extradition almost like a B movie: judge
EDMONTON — A judge has scoffed at what he calls a man’s B-movie attempt to stage his suicide and assume a new identity to avoid being sent to the United States on child luring charges.
Court records say Robert Andronyk of Edmonton vanished last fall after appealing a federal government decision that ordered him extradited to Arizona to face allegations from 2013 of luring a minor for sexual exploitation.
The records say that RCMP found an abandoned vehicle Nov. 30 outside the city near a bridge over the partly frozen North Saskatchewan River. A suicide note addressed to Andronyk’s daughter was inside.
The note said Andronyk, 70, feared extradition, faced lengthy prison time and couldn’t afford a lawyer.