APARTMENT TENANT IS AN INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVE, WON'T LEAVE

Sergey Umrikhin rented out his high-rise condo in the ritzi Hallandale Beach, Florida, to a new tenant at $1,500/month. He did the usual criminal background check, and the tenant, a Russian man, was recommended by a nice broker. But then the rent was late. And late again. And then Umrikhin received a violation letter from the property manager that his tenant was throwing cigarettes over the third-floor balcony and drinking out of glass bottles on the pool deck. Umrikhin filed eviction papers in mid-May. The tenant didn’t move. Umrikhin then searched online for his Russian tenant using a Russian search engine. That’s when he learned that the man, Vladimir Kholodnyak, was wanted by the international police agency Interpol. His crime? Kholodnyak and his brother owned a construction company in southwestern Russia and allegedly erected residential buildings without obtaining permits and failed to finish some of them, defrauding clients who had purchased units. Mr. Umrikhin called the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security in mid-June. Still no action. The U.S. Marshals Service, the agency with primary jurisdiction over foreign nationals on Interpol’s wanted list, said it is unable to arrest Russian nationals on the list because the United States and Russia don’t have an extradition treaty. The wanted international criminal remains in the condo.
* Is Interpol really a thing, or is it just a creation in the Hardy Boys books?
* Time to call … The Assassination Squad!
* If only there were Russian gangsters with no scruples who could provide a hit man.
* Wait – Vladimir Putin! He’s ALWAYS having people killed!
* How about bribing a CIA agent to flood the condo with itching powder?
* Bombard the guy with Jehovah’s Witnesses ringing the bell at all hours of the day and night?
* $1,500 a month? You couldn’t get a shoe box for that in some American cities.
* Doesn’t this sound like the beginning of a Quentin Tarantino movie?
* You have to understand that glass bottles on the pool deck is a serious felony in Florida.
* As it should be.
* Maybe a large alligator should happen to find its way into the condo, if you know what I mean.
* PHONE TOPIC: My Worst Tenant.