Eriksson, 44, was charged for having failed to make payments on three exotic sport cars worth $3.5 million that he imported into the United States last fall from Britain, sheriff's deputies said. He is being held without bail, and immigration authorities are investigating questions about his visa status, said Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Ever since the wreck of the Ferrari Enzo in Malibu on Feb. 21, there have been questions about the circumstances of the crash and about Eriksson, whose fortunes appear to have soared and crashed with equal velocity. Until last September, he was an executive of a highly valued computer gaming company, Gizmondo, with a stable of enormously expensive autos and a huge salary. As of this weekend, he was an inmate in the county jail, booking number 8996096, with no cars.
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