CDC. >> BUT WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN NOW WITH A CASE OF APPARENT FRAUD. A FORMER INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AT LEHIGH UNIVERSITY IS PLEADING GUILTY TO FORGERY AFTER IT WAS DISCOVERED HE LIED ON HIS COLLEGE APPLICATION. >> NOW, HE ATTENDED THE SCHOOL ON A FULL SCHOLARSHIP TOTALING MORE THAN $80,000. ACTION NEWS REPORTER WALTER PEREZ JOINS US LIVE FROM THE SCHOOL'S CAMPUS IN BETHLEHEM, WITH HOW THE TRUTH WAS UNCOVERED, WALTER. >> THAT'S RIGHT. SARAH AND BRIAN, THE YOUNG MAN AT THE CENTER OF THIS CASE, WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS, COMING UP WITH A FAIRY TALE VERSION OF HIS LIFE TO RECEIVE A FULL SCHOLARSHIP HERE AT LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. AND LOCAL INVESTIGATORS SAY HE ALMOST GOT AWAY WITH IT. ARIANE ANNAN'S WEB OF DECEIT STARTED UNRAVELING AFTER HE WROTE AN ANONYMOUS REDDIT POST ENTITLED, I HAVE BUILT MY LIFE AND CAREER ON LIES, AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTY ASSISTANT DA MICHAEL WEINERT SAYS THE REDDIT MODERATOR, WHO FLAGGED THAT POST MIGHT NOT HAVE KNOWN WHO TO NOTIFY, BUT FOR A CRITICAL MISTAKE MADE BY THE AUTHOR, THE DEFENDANT ONLY HAD ONE OTHER UNIVERSITY THAT HE FOLLOWED, WHICH WAS LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. >> SO THE MODERATOR ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO LEHIGH, TO GIVE THEM A HEADS UP. >> BY THE TIME LEHIGH UNIVERSITY POLICE INVESTIGATORS ZEROED IN ON ANOND, THEY HAD DETERMINED THAT HE FALSIFIED NEARLY EVERYTHING FROM HIS HIGH SCHOOL TRANSCRIPTS TO HIS FAMILY HISTORY. HE EVEN PROVIDED A PHONY DEATH CERTIFICATE FOR HIS FATHER, WHO IS STILL ALIVE AND WELL BACK IN INDIA. IN FACT, HIS FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF WAS SO IMPRESSIVE. LEHIGH UNIVERSITY GRANTED HIM A FULL ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP. >> IT WAS DIFFICULT TO REALLY VERIFY THESE THINGS, AND I THINK THAT'S A GREAT WORK BY LEHIGH AND THEIR, YOU KNOW, POLICE FORCE. THEY WILL TO REALLY DIG DEEP AND FIND OUT ALL THIS WAS FALSE. >> THE 19 YEAR OLD WAS ARRESTED TWO MONTHS AGO ON A STRING OF CHARGES, INCLUDING FELONY COUNTS OF FORGERY AND THEFT OF SERVICES . ANON FACED THE PROSPECT OF 10 TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON, BUT AT THE BEHEST OF UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS, HIS PUNISHMENT CONSISTS ONLY OF EXPULSION FROM THE SCHOOL AND DEPORTATION BACK TO INDIA. MEANWHILE, WE SPOKE WITH A FEW LEHIGH STUDENTS, MOST OF WHOM SAY THE PUNISHMENT FITS THE CRIME. >> PROBABLY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF LIKE, THE SITUATION. AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT I LIKE TO THINK. >> HE DID STEAL LIKE A LOT, AND THAT SCHOLARSHIP COULD HAVE WENT TO LIKE SOMEONE BETTER. BUT I THINK LEHIGH MADE THE RIGHT DECISION. >> ALSO, THE UNIVERSITY IS NOT REQUIRING ANON TO REPAY THE $85,000 IN SCHOLARSHIP MONEY HE WAS GRANTED. THE 19 YEAR OLD IS CURRENTLY IN THE CUSTODY OF IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT. HE WILL EXPECTEDLY BE DEPORTED WITHIN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS, REPORTING LIVE FROM LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. WALTER PEREZ, CHANNEL SIX, ACTION NEWS BRIAN AND SARAH, BACK TO YOU