A Google search led US police to arrest a championship gymnast and ‘most wanted’ alleged sexual offender onboard a Carnival cruiseship last week.
A Facebook profile finally caught up with Bulgarian Kaloyan Kaloyanov who was nabbed onboard the 2,974-berth Carnival Splendor (built 2008) off Mexico, the Oakland Tribune reported.
Carnival Splendor.
The 36-year-old had been wanted over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in the US 10 years ago. He had been on the ‘most wanted’ list of the Fremont Police Department for eight years.
Police returned to the cold case recently when the former gymnastics instructor’s name was put into internet search engine Google. A profile belonging to him popped up on social networking site Facebook which led authorities to Carnival, onboard whose ships he has been working for some time.
Although not directly employed by Carnival, Kaloyanov had been working onboard the Panama-flagged Carnival Splendor as a hair salon manager and previously as a fitness instructor.
He was held onboard the ship off Mexico for six days by onboard security until the vessel docked at Long Beach, California on Sunday where he was turned over to US authorities.
Kaloyanov is alleged to have sexually assaulted a former gymnastics student in 2000 who was then aged just 15. He is said to have admitted the assaults when originally questioned in 2002 but fled the country. He had previously competed in a number of aerobics gymnastics world championships.
Source: Tradewinds
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