America's Most Wanted Deadbeat Dad Busted In Canada
Joseph Stroup AKA America’s Most Wanted Deadbeat Dad Busted Living In Canada Under An Assumed Name
America’s most wanted deadbeat dad has been found living in Canada. He is now heading to federal prison. Joseph Stroup ran from a hefty child support bill for decades and became known as a “Most Wanted Deadbeat Dad.”
A federal judge ordered Joseph Stroup to two years in prison and one year of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $534,000 in restitution.
America’s most wanted deadbeat dad pleaded guilty in May to an indictment alleging failure to pay child support from 1998. Stroup had amassed $559,000 in arrears.
He was living outside Calgary under an assumed name, Joop Cousteau.
Stroup and his wife divorced in 1989. The court ordered Stroup to pay child support of $100 per month to his ex-wife for their four children. Stroup told the court he was disabled and unemployed. As a result, the Michigan judge lowered the child support payments from $100 per month to $14 per month. after
Stroup sold a successful Internet business in 1996 for more than $2 million. As a result, authorities modified Stroup’s child support payments to account for his unreported income and he fled the U.S.
Consequently, Stroup was named the United States’ “Most Wanted Deadbeat.”
Stroup was arrested February 1st in Alberta.
Warren said authorities believe Stroup entered Canada using his real name and then assumed the identity. Stroup had been using the name Joop Cousteau for at least a decade.
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