A Rhode Island man accused of faking his death and fleeing the United States to evade rape charges has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a former girlfriend.

A man who allegedly faked his own death to avoid rape charges has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a former girlfriend. Nicholas Rossi, of Rhode Island, was convicted Wednesday in the first of two trials in Utah. A Salt Lake County jury found him guilty of a 2008 rape after a three-day trial.

A Rhode Island man accused of faking his death and fleeing the U.S. to evade rape charges​ was found guilty of sexually assaulting a former girlfriend in his first of two Utah trials.