Stelianos Psaroudakis turned himself in late yesterday afternoon and his first court appearance has been set to face charges of fraud under $5,000 and public mischief stemming from the barbed wire incident in the Bragg Creek area, July 5.

The Cochrane RCMP went public in requesting the 37 year-old Calgary man to come forward after they came to the conclusion that he had fabricated his story of cycling into barbed wire stretched across a West Bragg Creek trial and afterwards sought to collect funds through a GoFundMe account.

The RCMP claim there never was a bike, there was no barbed wire on the trail and that he actually sustained the injuries after running into a barbed wire fence while quading on private property elsewhere.

Psaroudakis has been released and is scheduled to make a court appearance in Cochrane, Aug. 22.

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