Brian Michael Rini

An Ohio man who falsely claimed to be a long-missing Illinois child has been sentenced to serve two years behind bars and one year of probation for aggravated identity theft.

A federal judge on Wednesday set final sentencing Dec. 15 for an Ohio man who falsely claimed to be a long-missing Illinois child.

An Ohio man who claimed to be a child who disappeared at age 6 pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated identity theft and will serve two years in prison, minus time served.

A federal judge will hear next week whether a plea deal has been reached in the case of a 24-year-old man authorities say claimed to be a long-missing child.

A federal judge will hear next week whether a plea deal has been reached in the case of a 24-year-old man authorities say claimed to be a long-missing child.

The case of a 24-year-old Ohio man charged with impersonating a long-missing child is on hold in federal court.

A pretrial hearing is planned for a 24-year-old man charged with impersonating a long-missing child.

A federal judge has set a June 24 trial date for the 23-year-old man charged with impersonating a long-missing child.

A 23-year-old man who authorities say claimed to be a missing child from Aurora has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

A federal grand jury indictment that was filed Thursday has accused an Ohio man who claimed to be a missing child from Aurora of lying to federal agents and of identity theft.

A federal magistrate has ordered a 23-year-old man charged with lying to federal agents about being a missing child from Illinois continue to be held without bond. Authorities on Friday charged Brian Michael Rini of Medina, Ohio, a day after DNA testing ruled him out as being Timmothy Pitzen, who disappeared in 2011 at age 6. Magistrate Karen Litkovitz had...

The father of Timmothy Pitzen, the Aurora boy missing since 2011, opens up after a man was charged with impersonating his son. Susan Carlson reports. 

A 23-year-old Ohio man was federally charged Friday, with authorities saying he impersonated Timmothy Pitzen after watching a television show about the boy from Aurora, Illinois, who has been missing since 2011.

Charges were filed Friday against a man who allegedly impersonated a missing Aurora boy in Ohio. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey has the latest details. 

A person claiming to be a 14-year-old boy who went missing from Aurora at the age of 6 was actually a 23-year-old man from Ohio, police said Thursday.

Prosecutors say the 23-year-old Ohio man accused of impersonating Timmothy Pitzen did so after watching a television show about the boy missing from Aurora, Illinois, since 2011.

DNA test results showed a person claiming to be missing Aurora boy Timmothy Pitzen is not actually the missing child, according to the FBI. Kate Chappell reports.

Authorities say the person who claimed to be a boy missing from Aurora since 2011 is actually a 23-year-old Ohio man. Lauren Petty reports.

The brother of the man who claimed to be Timmothy Pitzen–a boy from Aurora who’s been missing for nearly eight years–told a reporter Thursday he wants to apologize to the vanished child’s family.

NBC 5 Investigates has learned that Brian Michael Rini – the man who allegedly claimed to Kentucky authorities that he was Timmothy Pitzen, a boy who vanished from west-suburban Aurora several years ago – was just released from an Ohio prison less than a month ago after serving time for burglary and vandalism.