"Patrick Lutts Jr. appeared in a downtown Toronto court by video link from a local jail on Wednesday. His lawyer Michelle Psutka told the court her client would be waiving his right to a formal extradition hearing previously scheduled for January. A CBC News investigation earlier this year revealed that Lutts, 52, lived openly in the city after skipping a plea hearing in an Orlando court in 2003. With a warrant out for his arrest, Lutts hosted monthly trivia nights at a Toronto bar."
"and under the alias Pat Lighthelp provided relationship advice to clients as a self-styled psychic. His arrest in February by Toronto police's fugitive squad came after a Crime Stoppers-type service in Florida received an anonymous tip about his whereabouts in November 2023. The tip appears to have come from a U.S.-based internet sleuth who claims to have used facial recognition technology and social media clues to track Lutts to Toronto."
"Nancy Lopez, 19, left, was driving her boyfriend, Darvin Javier DeJesus-Taboada, 18, right, to work on Christmas Day 1998 when they were killed in an early-morning crash in Orlando, Fla. Prosecutors charged the driver of the other vehicle, Patrick Lutts Jr., with two counts of DUI manslaughter. He was arrested in Toronto earlier this year after spending more than two decades on the run."
Patrick Lutts Jr. will not contest extradition from Toronto to Florida on two counts of DUI manslaughter stemming from a 1998 Christmas Day crash that killed Nancy Lopez and Darvin Javier DeJesus-Taboada. He appeared by video link from a Toronto jail as his lawyer waived a formal extradition hearing previously scheduled for January. Lutts skipped a plea hearing in Orlando in 2003 and lived openly in Toronto for decades under an alias, hosting monthly trivia nights and offering relationship advice as a self-styled psychic. Toronto police arrested him in February after an anonymous tip reportedly traced to a U.S.-based internet sleuth using facial recognition and social media clues.
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