Paperwork Delaying ‘Rockefeller’ Extradition for Murder Charge

One week after it was announced that Christian Gerhartsreiter— John Sohus—would , Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Detective Delores Scott said she had not received official notification regarding Gerhartsreiter’s compliance with extradition.

“We have not received any official document stating that,” Scott told Patch Thursday. “As soon as we receive the signed paper … then we have so many days to go get him.”

Gerhartsreiter, who posed as royal descendant Christopher Chichester when he lived in San Marino in the 1980s, is currently in Massachusetts serving a sentence for the 2008 kidnapping of his daughter. In recent years, Gerhartsreiter has referred to himself as Clark Rockefeller and said he was a part of the famous Rockefeller family.

LA County Sheriff's Department Lieutenant Wes Sutton said Thursday that Gerhartsreiter’s extradition date “should be fairly soon” but the department was waiting for confirmation from Massachusetts officials.

Los Angeles County District Attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison also told Patch Thursday that her office has still not received official notification or any communication from Gerhartsreiter’s attorneys in the past week.

Gerhartreiter’s attorney Jeffrey Denner, a founding partner of the law firm Denner Pelligrino LLP in Boston, said Thursday the signing of the official document “was done days ago—probably either the first day of this week or last day of last week. I think it was done last week.”

Denner said he was not involved in the physical signing of the letter and did not know yet if it had been sent to Los Angeles authorities but suggested contacting a Massachusetts jail for details about the document. A message Patch left for a Massachusetts prison authority after 6 p.m. EST Thursday night has not yet been returned.

Once the LA County Sheriff's Department receives the signed document, Scott said it is “usually a couple weeks” until Sheriff's officials can pick up someone being extradited. “We have to make travel arrangements and what not,” said Scott, who also mentioned additional minimal paperwork.