where's deter?

This is a story that's been unfolding for a couple of months. Looks like Deitrich is lost and it's the end of the line for Stefan.

note: The shadowy possibly ficticious "Deitrich" was originally reported as "Deter", which was funnier & drew me to the story but Deitric will do.

Driver Arrested in Ferrari Crash Case
By Richard Winton and David Pierson, Times Staff Writer
2:20 PM PDT, April 9, 2006

Authorities believe the car was going 162 mph when it smashed into a power pole.

Eriksson told deputies who arrived at the scene that he was not the driver and that another man, named Dietrich, had been behind the wheel. Eriksson said Dietrich fled the scene. But detectives have openly mocked his story. Investigators took a swab of Eriksson's saliva to match his DNA against blood found on the Ferrari's driver's-side air bag. The DNA results are back but detectives won't release their findings.

What the Times article left out was that Stefan orignally said Deter & he were racing a silver MacLauren Mercedes when Deter lost control and crashed. Last month in a bizarre turn of events Stefan's wife was stopped and cited for driving without a license while driving a silver Maclauren.

The cars were purchased in Britain last year when Eriksson lived there. He apparently brought them to Los Angeles when he moved here. But financial institutions that held titles to the cars informed detectives that payments had lapsed, Whitmore said.

Eriksson was an executive with Gizmondo, a European video game company that crashed with more than $200 million in debts. According to Swedish authorities, he served prison time in the early 1990s for counterfeiting.


The only remaining loose end:

Eriksson also told deputies that he was a deputy commissioner of the police department of a tiny transit agency in the San Gabriel Valley. A few minutes after the crash, two men arrived at the crash scene, identified themselves as homeland security officers and spoke to Eriksson at length before leaving.