Ex. Jamestown Resident Indicted for Failing to Pay Over $250K in Child Support

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Ex. Jamestown Resident Indicted for Failing to Pay Over $250K in Child Support

Former Jamestown resident Christopher Carroll, 47, has received a two count indictment from a federal grand jury who charge him with allegedly traveling in interstate and outside the country to evade paying over $250,000 in child support payments for his three minor children, ages 9,11, and 14.

The Case

According to court documents, it is alleged that Carroll, a former senior marketing executive with an international energy management company based in Paris, stopped paying Rhode Island Family Court ordered child support payments of $6,000 per month in January 2013, two years after payments were ordered to begin.

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A Rhode Island Family Court judge ruled that Carroll was in contempt of court for failing to meet his child support obligations on June 17, 2013.

According to court documents, Carroll withdrew at least $369,329.31 from numerous investment accounts.

According to court documents, Carroll has renounced his U.S. Citizenship and he and his current wife identify themselves as being semi-retired, and have stated that they have spent the past year traveling in Europe, Central and South America, Canada and the United States.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Carroll.

An indictment is just an allegation and not evidence of guilt. A defendant is entitled to a fair trial in which it will be the government's burden to prove guild beyond a reasonable doubt.


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