'Teen' Basketball Player, Jonathan Nicola, Says He Didn't Know He Was 29

Source: http://ift.tt/zP5LE8 --- Wednesday, April 27, 2016
An immigration sting in Canada has uncovered a man posing as a 17-year-old high school Basketball player - despite him being nearly 30 years old. Jonathan Elia Nicola, who entered the country from South Sudan on a student visa, told authorities he didn't know his real age. The towering 29-year-old is reported to have passed through several stages of immigration screening before taking up the Basketball scholarship in Windsor, Ontario. Here's one of the many photos I took at the 2016 Boys AAA OFSAA Basketball of Jonathan Nicola @timandsid http://pic.twitter.com/v5DUKB12oe — JordanCaschera (@TheRealCaschera) April 21, 2016 He said his mother back in South Sudan kept giving him conflicting information about his date of birth. Explaining how he came to not know his personal information, Nicola said: "I always keep asking [my mother] what is the specific age that I was born, and she has told me that she could not remember. "Over [in South Sudan] . . . not every year we study . . . we always keep moving to different schools, and over there, they do not ask your age. They do not ask you nothing." Another photo I took of Jonathan Nicola, who is Reportedly being considered as a flight risk http://pic.twitter.com/txWDoh1IWw — JordanCaschera (@TheRealCaschera) April 26, 2016 He told officials that he was scouted out by an unknown sports coach in his homeland, in part on account of his six-foot-nine height,  the Toronto Star reported. His documentation li ...

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