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"America's Most Wanted" Montecito Man Arrested

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Orson Mozes, of Montecito, has been arrested in Miami, FL after being featured on America's Most Wanted.
Mozes allegedly ran an online adoption agency called Adoption International Program out of his Montecito mansion.
A.I.P. would allegedly charge prospective families between $7,000 and $11,000 to hold a child seen on the program's website.
Authorities say that the majority of prospective parents trying to adopt through A.I.P. were told -- after paying large sums of money, investing a great deal of time, paying additional funds for home studies, and completing INS paperwork -- that their child was no longer available.
After months of payments, paperwork and waiting, authorities say that the majority of the parents were then told that their child was no longer available.
They say Mozes either told them the child had been reclaimed by it's birth parents or relatives or that country officials or orphanage staff had made a mistake.
Sometimes he allegedly offered no explanation at all.
Mozes now faces 62 felony counts in Santa Barbara County.
He is currently being held in a Miami-Dade jail awaiting extradition.

Story Created: Dec 29, 2008 at 5:49 PM PST

Story Updated: Dec 30, 2008 at 1:51 PM PST

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