Bradley suspect returns to Sweeden, charges dropped


Staff report

Charges were dropped against the man who told UK police he was President Clinton when police confronted him in Bradley Hall earlier this month.

Majid Safaie, 29, was charged with criminal trespassing and resisting arrest in connection with the Feb. 7 incident.

According to an article in the Lexington Herald-Leader, prosecutors were asked to drop the charges if Safaie would return to Sweden.

Prosecutors agreed and Fayette County Sheriff deputies escorted Safaie to Bluegrass Airport on Wednesday for a flight to Cincinnati. He was booked on a flight back to Stockholm.

The report also said the charges officially were dropped in court Friday.

Safaie was arrested after he followed a UK employee into the Omicron Delta Kappa office in Bradley Hall and refused to leave. The employee said he asked her repeatedly for "Greenwich time."

When Safaie allegedly shut himself in one of the offices, the employees called UK police.

Police said they confronted him on the second floor of the building and asked Safaie what he was doing.

"Looking at the pretty colors on the wall," he said.

Police asked him what his name was and Safaie replied, "President Clinton."

When police asked Safaie again what he was doing, he told police, "It is none of your business."

When officers informed Safaie he was being placed under arrest, he ran out of the building. Safaie then boarded a charter bus that was sitting in front of the Funkhouser Building. Officers said they forcibly removed Safaie from the bus.

Safaie was arrested a month prior to the UK incident. On Jan. 7, he was arrested at Rafferty's restaurant on Nicholasville Road and charged with third-degree criminal trespassing and second-degree stalking.

Police reports show that Safaie told a female employee that he loved her and that he was going to marry her.

Safaie pleaded guilty to the charges and was placed on two years' probation.


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