Sudan man who became a high school basketball star is actually a 30-year-old man who 'Lied'about his age as 17-years old

   

Jonathon Nicola (pictured), who is believed to be 30 years old, was arrested for posing as a 17-year-old eleventh grader and basketball star for six months at Catholic Central High School in Canada.

Canadian border officers arrested him and as of Wednesday he's being kept at the South West Detention Centre, according to the Windsor Star.

He was living with the team's head coach Pete Cusumano through a program called Canada Homestay, which finds homes for foreign students. Nicola arrived in November 2015 from South Sudan after obtaining a Canadian student visa.

Canadian border officers arrested him and he's being kept at the South West Detention Centre under the authority of the Immigration Refugee Protection Act. Nicola, who was a star on the Catholic Central Comets senior boys' basketball team,

Cusumano told the Star he wasn't allowed to talk about the situation but in January he said Nicola had a shot at going to the NBA.

 

Nicola told the Star January that he arrived in Windsor in November 2015 and that he left South Sudan, his disease-ridden, war-torn home, for a better life.

 

He said it took him six months to acquire a Canadian student visa because of the 'war going on, terrorism', which made it 'double hard'.