He was working as a reporter for Chechenpress, a news service tied to the Chechen separatist government, when he was convicted last December of sedition and inciting violence.
Making matters even more awkward, one of the convicted, Said Sadr, worked as a translator for the German embassy in Tehran.
Kelly Frank, who worked as a handyman on the ranch, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Ms. Niyazova, an independent Uzbek journalist who worked as a translator for the group, was convicted of distributing Islamic extremist propaganda and sentenced to seven years in prison last week after a two-day trial that was condemned by the European Union and the United States.
The police appealed to the public on Tuesday for anyone who might have seen a ex-convict who once worked as a handyman in the home of Elizabeth Smart, the 14-year-old girl who vanished on June 5.
He has worked as a painter in Spain, where he was also convicted twice for drug trafficking in 2013".
A Dubai court tried and convicted two men, including an Iranian who worked as a stable hand for Kadyrov — Kadyrov keeps racehorses in Dubai — for carrying out the assassination.
Ruyati was was convicted of murdering her employer in Saudi Arabia, where she worked as a maid, and then beheaded by sword.
Eric Glisson and Cathy Watkins were arrested in 1995 and convicted two years later of killing Baithe Diop, a Senegalese immigrant who worked as a cab driver.
Mr. Wiggins was convicted of drowning an elderly Baltimore County woman in 1988 in the apartment complex where he worked as a painter and handyman.
