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Biography
Juan Carlos Guzmán-Betancourt (born 1976) is a Colombian criminal and impostor. Guzmán is believed to have stolen at least $1 million in various countries. He used at least ten false identities and has been pursued in Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, Russia, Thailand and Japan.
Early life
Guzmán was born in 1976 in Roldanillo, Colombia. On June 4, 1993 he arrived to Miami as a wheel-well stowaway, calling himself Guillermo Rosales and pretending to be a teenager. As an unnamed male, "13 years old", he was listed in the FAA report on flights with stowaways.
Criminal record
Betancourt was first arrested in the United Kingdom in 1998 on suspicion of four burglaries at the Le Méridien Piccadilly Hotel, and of using a stolen credit card. In the US states of Virginia and New York Guzmán was convicted of larceny and credit card fraud in Florida, being deported from the US three times.