NEW YORK, May 19 (UPI) -- A man posing as an Austrian prince, but accused of being one of Michigan's worst deadbeat fathers, has been arrested in New York, officials say.
Josef Meyers, 50, was found hiding in the bedroom closet of a New York home Monday by U.S. Marshals, The Detroit News reported Wednesday.
The Oakland County (Mich.) Sheriff's Office and county prosecutors were seeking Meyers on a 2009 warrant for alleged failure to pay $250,000 in child support.
Oakland County detectives were working with federal marshals on the case.
Meyers has children from a wife he never divorced in Michigan, along with another wife, Michelle Trico, and three other children in New York, the newspaper said.
About 20 years ago Meyers legally changed his name and began passing himself off as an Austrian prince named Josef Franz Prach von Habsburg-Lothringen.
"The community at large is much safer with him off the street," said Steven Rambam, a New York private detective who has pursued Meyers.
A phone call to an attorney for Meyers was not returned, the News reported.
