Overview
- Prospective jurors were called Monday in Utah County for a trial over an alleged Sept. 13, 2008 assault of an ex‑girlfriend in Orem.
- Nicholas Alahverdian, also known as Nicholas Rossi, has pleaded not guilty in the Utah County case.
- A Salt Lake County jury found him guilty in August in a separate December 2008 rape, and a sentencing hearing is scheduled for October 20.
- Investigators say the Utah County accuser’s sexual assault kit was tested years later, and a backlog delayed identifying Alahverdian for about a decade.
- Authorities say he was the subject of a 2020 online obituary, later located in a Glasgow hospital using the name Arthur Knight, and extradited to the U.S. in January 2024.