az Stoner, the mastermind of the destruction of Quartzite Falls on the Salt River, didn’t simply skip the country in a last minute attempt to avoid sentencing, according to a High Country News report. Turns out he spent several months running up credit cards, taking out loans, acquiring a fake identity and transferring some $300,000 to accounts in Australia. Only then did he vanish from American soil.
On April 29 he was apprehended in Sydney when he tried to retrieve $100,000 with a bogus ID. And he thought he was in trouble before…