CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Former college basketball player Kerr Kriisa has been accused of fraudulently obtaining nearly $2.2 million from two victims.

A federal grand jury in West Virginia indicted him last month. The case was unsealed Monday after his arrest in Kentucky on Friday. Kriisa is a 6-foot-3 guard from Estonia.

He began his college career in 2020 at Arizona and later transferred to West Virginia. He is expected to appear in federal court in West Virginia this week on five counts of wire fraud. The indictment alleges he posed as other people, including his mother, to falsely claim he needed money for emergencies.

Heavy heart for LA rookie

LOS ANGELES — Catcher Eliezer Alfonzo made his major league debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday, the day his sister and stepmother had been found dead after Venezuela’s catastrophic earthquakes.

The 26-year-old Alfonzo batted ninth and caught Emmet Sheehan in the Dodgers’ home game against the San Diego Padres. Alfonzo’s sister and stepmother had been missing since multiple earthquakes hit his homeland on June 24.

Several Latin American media outlets reported their bodies had been found in the wreckage of the hotel in La Guaira where they were staying.

The official death toll of the disaster has exceeded 3,000 people, with tens of thousands more injured or missing.