Deal returns gold to fake Rockefeller

BOSTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The United States says it will return some of the cash and gold it seized from a Baltimore man accused of kidnapping his own daughter.

The Boston Globe said Tuesday that the deal with Suffolk County prosecutors will return about half of the money and gold coins seized from Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter while holding the rest as evidence this spring in his upcoming trial.

Gerhartsreiter was using the alias Clark Rockefeller when he whisked his daughter away during a bitter custody battle with his former wife.

The Globe said the deal would return $6,480 in cash and $140,000 in gold to Gerhartsreiter as well as the keys to his Baltimore home. His ex-wife, however, has laid claim to the gold in a separate court case.