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Something was different about the man known as Mickie Noah. More than a year after police in Toronto issued a warrant for his arrest, he was in front of investigators. He looked thinner, in a hoodie and track pants. Det.-Const. Timothy Trotter noticed he wasn’t even wearing a watch.

“A polite term, would be considerably diminished from his former stature — sartorially and physically,” Trotter said in an interview on Wednesday.

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U.S. immigration agents turned Noah over to Canadian authorities on Monday. It isn’t clear where he has been or what he’s been up to in the months following a Toronto Financial Crimes Unit investigation that unravelled an alleged fraud ring that bilked an estimated $10 million from stolen credit cards and other products.

It was a criminal organization/social group

Police say Noah, 44, was a member of the ring and the social group of Nigerian ex-pats that used the proceeds to fund a lavish lifestyle in downtown Toronto — brunches and designer clothes and cigars and bottle service. But, investigators say, he wasn’t the leader. That, according to allegations, was Adekunle Omitiran, known around Toronto as Johnson Chrome.