The latest update on Kerr Kriisa, a former West Virginia guard who also played for Arizona, Kentucky, and Cincinnati during his collegiate career, rocked the college basketball world on the Fourth of July. Now, more details are available as Kriisa is in federal custody.
Kriisa was arrested last Friday by the FBI, according to reports that first appeared on Saturday afternoon. It was indicated that he was arrested in connection with a "multi-million dollar fraud' scheme, and that it dated back to his with the West Virginia Mountaineers from 2023-2024. On Tuesday, his indictment was unsealed, revealing further information on the trouble he is in.
Former WVU basketball star faces federal wire fraud charges
Kriisa was indicted last month by a federal grand jury in West Virginia on five counts of wire fraud, according to the unsealed indictment. Beginning in 2022 and running through June 2026, Kriisa allegedly posed as other people, including his own mother, and made false claims of a family emergency in order to obtain money, eventually securing $2.2 million from two victims.
In August 2022, Kriisa reportedly made a false claim to one victim that he had obtained a loan to repay his debt, and later made false claims of plans to sell his organs to pay the victim. Between 2022 and 2024, he also allegedly contacted the same victim while posing as his own mother, claiming that Kriisa's mother needed cancer treatments and the family needed money to save their farm.
Kriisa later signed a written agreement in 2025, falsely promising to repay the victim by February 2026. He would go on between November 2025 and February 2026 to defraud a second victim for money, using a made up persona under the alias "Irene."
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